[IronPython] Announcing IronPython 2.0.1

[Giles Thomas]

Dave,

This is great news, many thanks to all on the IronPython team from all 
of us at Resolver Systems.  If all goes well, we'll be releasing our 
2.0-compatible version in the very near future.


Best regards,

Giles

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Dave Fugate wrote:

> Hello Python Community,
>
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>
> I’m pleased to announce the release of IronPython 2.0.1.  IronPython 
> 2.0.1 is a minor update to IronPython 2.0 which in turn is a CPython 
> 2.5 compatible release running under the .NET platform.  Our top 
> priority for this release was improving upon performance while 
> retaining backwards compatibility with IronPython 2.0.  One of many 
> notable areas we’ve improved upon is that float-integer comparisons 
> are now 74% faster than they were in 2.0.  A full report documenting 
> changes in interpreter performance from 2.0 to 2.0.1 can be found at 
> http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Wiki/View.aspx?title=IP201VsIP20Perf.  
> A special thanks goes out to Resolver Systems for helping us in 
> identifying areas needing performance improvements.
>
>  
>
> In addition to numerous bug fixes in our IronPython 2.6 branch that 
> were backported to 2.0.1, we also fixed the following CodePlex bugs 
> specifically for this release:
>
> ·         20632:  can't write a __len__ returning a uint
>
> ·         20492:  TupleExpression.IsExpandable is internal, should be 
> public
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> ·         20605:  Compiling with pyc and PySerial module
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> ·         20616:  wrong TypeError message when invoking "str.join": 
> implicit parameter 'self' not counted          
>
> ·         20623:  InitializeModule needs to add refs to mscorlib/System
>
> We’d like to thank everyone in the community who contributed to these 
> bugs: fwereade, Eloff, neraun, and kuno.
>
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> You can download IronPython 2.0.1 at: 
>  http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=12481
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> The IronPython Team
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