[Ironpython-users] WP7 & Silverlight Support in IronPython

[sepatan at sibmail.com]

Silverlight is very necessary.

> Throwing some thoughts out there on future platform support:
>
> Given that Windows Phone 7 is basically dead in the water at this
> point, it doesn't seem worth it to support it. I'm going to remove the
> existing WP7 binaries, which don't work anyway, from 2.7.3. If anyone
> is interested in supporting it I'll certainly consider patches, but I
> won't be adding it back to the distributions without a fully committed
> maintainer.
>
> Silverlight is also basically dead, but still has some users, so I
> have no intention of removing it yet. However, I would like to know if
> Silverlight 4 is still required - I'll leave it in for 2.7.3, but I'd
> like to remove it in 2.7.4, if Silverlight 4 has mostly been replaced
> by SL 5. That said, I would like someone to take over maintaining
> Silverlight; there really isn't any testing of it, so I'm basically
> taking it on faith that it still works, and I don't like that. If no
> one is willing to maintain it, I'm going to consider removing it
> entirely from 2.7.5.
>
> None of this is set in stone. I just want to get some discussion going.
>
> - Jeff
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