[IPython-dev] Jython support in ipython

[Fernando Perez]

Hi Jim!

[ great to hear from you again :) ]


I have to run soon and will be offline for a few days, so I wanted to
at least drop a very quick reply to get you going, while I have a
chance for a more detailed discussion.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jim Baker <jbaker at zyasoft.com> wrote:
> As of r7164 of Jython, which will be part of 2.5.2rc2 (and hopefully the
> last release candidate for Jython 2.5.2!), we have what looks decent support
> for readline emulation for Jython, sufficient to run a minimally modified
> version of ipython 0.10.1, including colorization (which is not reproduced
> when copied here for whatever reason from my terminal):

First, this is *great* news.  We'll do whatever we can from our side
to make the integration easier as we move forward.

> Create a jython-ipython fork on github, then make it available from PyPI. My
> current plan is to target against the 0.10.1 tag, but if it makes more sense
> to go with 0.11 (especially AST support), then please tell me. More unit

As to this point, yes, please base any new work you do on the 0.11
tree (master branch on github).  The 0.10 codebase is in minimal
maintenance-only mode, while the 0.11 one is in very active
development and has seen massive refactorings (for the better).  So
that's the place to build any new ideas on.

Will get back to you with more later...

Cheers,

f