[IronPython] Ironclad 0.8 released

[Michael Foord]

Dody Gunawinata wrote:
> One more encouragement :)
>
> x64 support is important now that people are migrating to Windows 
> Server 2008 hypervisor VMs to run the web application.

Contributions welcomed. :-)

Michael
>
> Dody G.
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:12 PM, William Reade 
> <william at resolversystems.com <mailto:william at resolversystems.com>> wrote:
>
>     Still no x64, although the necessary supporting changes are
>     gradually creeping in. I can't give you a timescale, I'm afraid,
>     but every person who asks me about it pushes it up my priority
>     list :-).
>
>
>     Dan Shechter wrote:
>
>         Congratulations...
>
>         Is x64 fully supported?
>
>              Shechter.
>
>         On 29/01/2009, at 13:43, William Reade
>         <william at resolversystems.com
>         <mailto:william at resolversystems.com>> wrote:
>
>             Hi all
>
>             I'm delighted to announce the release of Ironclad v0.8 --
>             the all-singing, all-dancing CPython API compatibility
>             layer for IronPython -- available now from
>             http://code.google.com/p/ironclad/ . Notable improvements
>             over the last release include:
>
>             * Ironclad is now a neatly self-contained package -- just
>             copy to your site-packages and 'import ironclad'.
>             * No more silly requirement to call ironclad.shutdown()
>             when you're finished.
>             * A few performance improvements.
>             * Over 900 NumPy tests now pass: in fact, almost all the
>             tests from the core, fft, lib, linalg, ma, oldnumeric and
>             random subpackages.
>             * Over half the .pyds distributed with CPython 2.5 now
>             import cleanly; some of them appear to actually work,
>             including _hashlib and _elementtree.
>
>             Ironclad grows more stable and mature with every release,
>             and I urge IronPython users to try it out and share their
>             impressions: feedback, whether positive or negative, is
>             always welcomed.
>
>             Cheers
>             William
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