[IronPython] clarification on current state of embedding

[Michael Foord]

Justin Regele wrote:
> This brings up another question I've encountered. My understanding was 
> that IPy had problems with 3.5, and so I have been targeting 2.0. But 
> when I try to reference the IronPython and Microsoft.Scripting 
> assemblies, Visual Studio says I need 3.5


I've created many projects in Visual Studio referencing IronPython 
assemblies and targeting .NET 2.0. Which means I don't know what is 
wrong, but it *should* work fine... :-)

Michael Foord
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> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Curt Hagenlocher 
> <curt at hagenlocher.org <mailto:curt at hagenlocher.org>> wrote:
>
>     Good point!
>
>
>     On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Michael Foord
>     <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk <mailto:fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>> wrote:
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>         Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
>
>             ...except through the hosting API *and through the new C#
>             dynamic functionality in .NET 4.0*.
>
>
>         And how do you get to the classes to use them with the new
>         dynamic functionality if it isn't through the hosting API?
>
>         What you do with them once you get them is your own business
>         of course...
>
>         Michael
>
>
>             On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Michael Foord
>             <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
>             <mailto:fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>
>             <mailto:fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
>             <mailto:fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>>> wrote:
>
>                Justin Regele wrote:
>
>                    What is the status of referencing IPy libraries
>             compiled to
>                    dlls by other CLR languages? Google turned up that
>             as of 1.1
>                    you had to use the embedding/hosting api's, since
>             the dlls
>                    were not compatible with say C# assemblies. There were
>                    allusions made to this being changed.
>
>
>                You can't access Python classes except through the
>             hosting API.
>                There are no (public) plans for this to change anytime
>             soon.
>
>                Michael
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