On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Curt Hagenlocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We reached an important milestone in the IronPython project this week > with the release of IronPython 2.0 beta 4. But it's not our code that > makes this release so remarkable -- it's yours, the Python developers. > For the first time, Microsoft is including the standard Python > library as part of what you can download from CodePlex. Previously, > users of IronPython who wanted to make use of the urllib module (to > give just one example) would have to download the CPython distribution > separately and then fiddle with the bits on the disk to make them work > together. That is no longer the case. > > Of course, this isn't any kind of great technical achievement -- but > it is legal and cultural progress here at Microsoft. All of us > working on the IronPython and IronRuby projects are committed to > pulling the company in a more open source direction, so it's very > gratifying to see this happening. >
Glad you were able to work out what you needed internally to see this happen, Curt! -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
