[IronPython] Announcing IronPython 2.0 Beta4

[Kevin Chu]

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On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Srivatsn Narayanan
<srivatsn at microsoft.com>wrote:

>  Hello IronPython Community,
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> I'm pleased to announce IronPython 2.0 *Beta4*. We have fixed around 50
> bugs(~45 of them reported on Codeplex and ~5 reported internally). Apart
> from these bug fixes, the following are the highlights of this release:
>
> ·         This release ships with a MSI installer that installs IronPython
> along with the *Python Standard Library*. It is now dual-licensed with
> IronPython shipping under MS-PL and the python standard library shipping
> under the Python Software Foundation license. This means that existing
> python libraries are readily available after installation and makes for a
> better out-of-the-box experience of using existing CPython libraries. A zip
> file containing the binaries is still available as before.
>
> ·         Static compilation of python files is now supported again and
> the pyc.py sample has been updated to use the newer version.
>
> ·         IDispatch-based cominterop is now the default mode as opposed to
> generating interop assemblies for interacting with COM components. This is a
> change that might break some existing scripts. One can switch back to the
> old behavior by setting the environment variable
> COREDLR_PreferComInteropAssembly. Read this blog<http://blogs.msdn.com/shrib/archive/2008/07/30/idispatch-support-on-in-ironpython-beta-4.aspx>for more details on this feature.
>
> ·         Apart from the Silverlight binaries and Chiron, the templates
> and tools to create a barebones app are included as well. This is in the
> Silverlight\Script folder.
>
> ·         Performance degrades that were reported in Beta 3 have been
> fixed.
>
>
>
> The following Codeplex items have been closed since IronPython 2.0 Beta3:
>
> ·         nt.popen(...) breaks where ... consists of cmd.exe commands
>
> ·         globals().fromkeys(...) broken
>
> ·         globals().Values enumerator broken
>
> ·         Trivial: nt.tempnam("", None) broken
>
> ·         Trivial: Remove exceptions.OverflowWarning
>
> ·         New-style class dicts (dictproxy) cannot be used for C# methods
> with IDictionary parameters
>
> ·         Negative: ipyw.exe run w/o args crashes
>
> ·         'dictproxy' object has no attribute 'copy'
>
> ·         class.__dict__ (dictproxy) doesn't support .get
>
> ·         repr() of a UserList containing another userList is wrong
>
> ·         NaN == NaN
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> ·         DBNull should implement __nonzero__ that always returns false.
>
> ·         IP implementation of _sha512 has extra module attributes
>
> ·         Dir on textbox raises exception
>
> ·         re.compile(...).match(...) does not permit certain integer
> pos/endpos keyword parameter values
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> ·         re.compile(...).match(...).groupdict() broken WRT to unnamed
> groups
>
> ·         re.match(..., ...).regs is nearly always incorrect
>
> ·         datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() is not POSIX timestamp
>
> ·         Trivial: Charset name
>
> ·         datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp()
>
> ·         datetime.datetime.isoformat() has no parameter
>
> ·         nt.fstat(...) broken
>
> ·         Python25: __hash__ returning longs broken on old style classes
> WRT CPython 2.5
>
> ·         Trivial: IronPython converts -0x80000000 to a long (should be
> int)
>
> ·         -X:TabCompletion broken in IP2.0A1 WRT simple variable expansion
>
> ·         import socket
>
> ·         TypeError: staticmethod is not callable when overriding __new__
> in old+new derived type
>
> ·         using the PropertyGrid class - SelectedObject issue
>
> ·         new.classobj fails with "TypeError: __bases__ items must be
> classes (got type)"
>
> ·         dict(...) broken on new style class dictionaries (dictproxy)
>
> ·         IronPython should not implement _weakref.proxy.__eq__
>
> ·         nt.stat(someDirectory) is broken
>
> ·         Trivial: Implement 'file(...).mode'
>
> ·         Trivial: os.chmod followed by os.unlink fails
>
> ·         os.umask does not exist
>
> ·         Regular Expression incompatibility
>
> ·         co_filename in code objects is None
>
> ·         Trivial: help(clr.AddReference) not helpful
>
> ·         tb_line member of Traceback objects is incorrect
>
> ·         Valid regex under CPython will fail with IronPython
>
> ·         time.timezone has different semantic than in cpython
>
> ·         IronPython 2.0B2 cannot iterate over an IEnumerable returned
> from a C# method using yield
>
> ·         Implement os.system (nt.system)
>
> ·         cStringIO 1-arg .read() and .readlines() broken
>
> ·         Trivial: id should return int or long, not Int64
>
>
>
> We'd like to thank everyone in the community who reported these bugs:
> jdhardy, Wilberforce, Eloff, Sakesun Roykiattisak, Chuck Jacobs, haypo,
> eshaish, arman0, nivaldo, krosavcheg, Davy Mitchell, luntain, William Reade,
> tatwright, Christian Muirhead, sdahlbac, Eric Wyler, dubnerm, Paulfelix,
> chadaustin and jjlee.
>
>
>
> We've also closed these bugs that were reported internally:
>
> ·         misc string related bugs from c-python25 test
>
> ·         Trivial: Debug.Assert: locals() in the interactive mode
>
> ·         Implement warnings for -Qwarn and -Qwarnall
>
> ·         StackOverflowException when exec "a[0]==7" for Ironpython, but
> Cpython can work
>
> ·         Helper stubs shown in Python stack traces
>
>
>
> You can download IronPython 2.0 Beta 4 at:
> http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14353
>
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>
> The IronPython Team
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> IMPORTANT NOTES
>
> ToyScript, a small scripting language built on top of the DLR, is merely a
> DLR sample and not some new scripting language Microsoft has created.  Also,
> ToyScript is not intended to be distributed with IronPython on a permanent
> basis.
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