[IronPython] Multiple engine instances in IP 2.0 and beyond (was IronPython 2.0 Alpha 1 Released)

[Shri Borde]

I agree that you should stick with 1.1 if you are close to release.

We will fix critical blocking bugs in 1.1 as needed. However, to keep that branch stable, the bar will be high. Do shout if you run into blocking issues.

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Subject: Re: [IronPython] Multiple engine instances in IP 2.0 and beyond (was IronPython 2.0 Alpha 1 Released)

Shri Borde said:

>>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.
>>
>>

None of the 1.1 bugs are blocking us, we have just discovered them as we
develop. If we encounter a blocking bug we will shout loudly. :-)

Given that we are so close to release, and that switching to 2.0 will
mean non-trivial changes (which wasn't true of 1.0 - 1.1 - thank you),
we will stick to 1.1 for the moment. Eventually we will have to move to
2.0 of course (and would like to).

As 2.0 is still in alpha, we would like to think that the 1.X branch
hasn't been abandoned by 'the team'.

In the very long run we will move to executing user code inside
appdomains, but currently that would result in a lot of cross domain
calls that would hurt our performance in a big way. As resolving this
would be a lot of work it isn't yet a high priority for us - and won't
be for quite a long time.

All the best,


Michael Foord
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/index.shtml
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