[IronPython] Reopening closed issues

[Michael Foord]

Dino Viehland wrote:
> I thought we were going directly to the web server but I could be wrong.  Looking at the code it's not too clear to me - we go to Application.GetResourceStream(uri).  I'm not sure whether that's a resource in the XAP or if that's the URI to get the resource from.
>
> If it is coming from the XAP then we might be able to check Application.ResourceDictionary to see if it has the specified URI.  I'll have to talk to Jimmy about it more tomorrow.
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>   

In Silverlight 2 Beta 2 imports are definitely done from inside the xap 
file - and the module names that come back indicate that at the very 
least you know the name of the file fetched.

Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:26 PM
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> Subject: Re: [IronPython] Reopening closed issues
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> Dino Viehland wrote:
>   
>> In Silverlight we don't have access to the local file system.  Instead we the DLR's PlatformAdaptionLayer, which IronPython 2.x builds upon for file access, and that is redirected to the web server.  So our "file system" becomes limited by what HTTP is capable of supporting.
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> But import is done from the xap file and not from the server right?
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> Michael
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Dan Eloff
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:43 PM
>> To: Discussion of IronPython
>> Subject: Re: [IronPython] Reopening closed issues
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>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Dino Viehland <dinov at microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On the Silverlight one there may be nothing we can do about it - HTTP doesn't have a dir or ls command so I
>>> believe we can only ask for the files by name and get them or not.
>>>
>>>       
>> Forgive me, but how is HTTP connected to importing?
>>
>> -Dan
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