[Cython] Any news from the IronPython port?

[Stefan Behnel]

Robert Bradshaw, 19.07.2011 05:57:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Jason McCampbell wrote:
>> Definitely not buried for good, though we haven't made a lot of changes
>> recently. :)  We used it for porting SciPy to .NET and re-wrote a large
>> number of the SciPy C module implementations in Cython.  It is generally
>> stable and produces good code within the set of features that were needed
>> (by no means has feature parity with the CPython version).
>> In general, I have been quite happy with the results given that it is
>> possible to generate interfaces for two Python implementations from a single
>> source.  Of course, it is not free.  One can, in general, not take a
>> NumPy-heavy Cython file and just generate source code for IronPython.
>>   Because IronPython and NumPy for .NET do not share any common C APIs we had
>> to wrap some of the APIs and in other cases switch to using Python notation
>> and/or call the new Python-independent NumPy core API (present only in the
>> refactored version).
>> Overall, I think it's a good start and holds some promise for generating
>> re-targetable native wrappings, but there is still plenty of work to do to
>> make it more accessible.
>> Regards,
>> Jason
>
> Thanks for the status update--is the code available somewhere (e.g. as
> a forked git repo)? Is it something that would be worth merging, or at
> this point is it mostly hacked up to just do what you need it to for
> SciPy?

The code is here:

https://bitbucket.org/cwitty/cython-for-ironpython/overview

No idea what the status is, but it hasn't been updated for a while.

Stefan