[IronPython] The Road to 2.7 (Was: The Future of IronPython)

[Lukas Cenovsky]

On 28.10.2010 7:57, Jeff Hardy wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Lukas Cenovsky<cenovsky at bakalari.cz>  wrote:
>> I'd like to help. What is the best place to start?
> Right now, we need to identify what's not working in 2.7B1 that needs
> to be in 2.7 final. The best thing to do would be to identify any
> issues that are causing you pain and bring them up on the list. Then
> we can decide what meets the bar for a 2.7 release (with issues that
> have patches getting priority, of course!). Dino, are there any issues
> that you know are in 2.7B1 that must be fixed for 2.7 final?

I have not found any issue so far.

> Dino has provided some instructions on contributing to IronPython:
> http://ironpython.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Respository%20Instructions&referringTitle=Home.
> We need people to run through that and if there's anything it doesn't
> cover (I do intend to add subversion instructions directly at some
> point), and run the test suite as well. Also, doing all of that on
> Mono, to see what work needs to be done there.

I'll go through it during the weekend for .NET (not Mono).

> Besides knowing what needs to be done, we need a rough timeline. I
> would like to see a release before the end of the year, or at least a
> solid release candidate with a possible release early next year. The
> idea behind an aggressive schedule is to focus on getting the features
> we have solid and not worry about adding new features or libraries
> (with the possible exception of zlib). That said, this all just my
> desires, and I really want to get an idea of what every one else is
> thinking.

I agree with this schedule. It was quite a pain waiting for 2.6.2 
bugfixes so I am for quicker releases.

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-- Lukáš