[IronPython] Backporting of bugs to 1.1

[Michael Foord]

Shri Borde wrote:
> We are focusing most of our efforts on the 2.0 branch and the DLR. We are not automatically backporting bug fixes to 1.1. We will consider doing that for specific bugs based on priority and how much it affects customers. However, given our limited resources and wanting to keep 1.1 as stable as possible, our preference is to minimize development in the 1.1 branch and focus on the 2.0 branch.
>
> Have you looked at moving to 2.0? Dino had mentioned a workaround (of maintaining a thread-local static) which would enable you to selectively redirect console output. Given that you are running into a number of issues and that you might have a stream of such issues going forward, it will be hard for us to continually port all those fixes to 1.1.
>   

We need to divert standard output to capture output from user code. If 
user code uses threads (which it can do) - then the thread-local idea 
won't work.

Also on systems with .NET 3, there is a reported speed degradation 
moving from 1 to 2, which we can't afford (and we aren't willing to 
depend on .NET 3 yet I'm afraid).

All the best,


Michael


> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 8:46 AM
> To: Discussion of IronPython
> Subject: [IronPython] __doc__ on None
>
> Hello all,
>
> More fun with None:
>
> CPython 2.4.4:
>  >>> print None.__doc__
> None
>
> IP 1.1:
>  >>> print None.__doc__
> T.__new__(S, ...) -> a new object with type S, a subtype of T
>
> This is again confusing our auto-documentation tool. :-)
>
> By the way - can any of 'the team' answer the question as to whether the
> 1.1 branch is still being developed? (Bugfixes being backported?)
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael Foord
>
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