[Ironpython-users] Metro Profile support

[Jeff Hardy]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Keith Rome <rome at wintellect.com> wrote:
> I specifically asked during the Q&A after that session about DLR support. With the changes to the type system, they seem to really want to push away from IDMOP. I also got the impression that "dynamic" in C# 4.5 will not be quite the same (perhaps Call Sites aren't going to work?). It seems to me that if either of those changed a lot it might break quite a bit of the DLR pieces.
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> Getting a straight answer on the topic was pretty difficult though; nobody with a blue badge wanted to discuss it. It was either still up in the air, or they wanted to pretend it didn't exist. The official response seemed to always fall back to "you can still do it in 'classic' non-metro desktop apps in win8 if you need to".

Hooray for non-answers! Not being able to use IronPython for Metro
apps is going to hurt in the future, methinks. I'll see what I can dig
up.

- Jeff