Jython

[Matt Behrens]

> I was looking to make a ready-packaged ant task for jythonc, as in drop 
> the jar file in your SCM and go.  So I tried to use jythonc to make a 
> jar file out of itself.  This may be a good test of jythonc :-)

Indeed it is, but I think it is a completely useless test of jythonc <wink>.

The idea of a jythonc'ed application is that it is frozen; it only knows 
about the python modules, java packages and java classes that the 
application could find when it was compiled. Jythonc OTOH very much 
needs access to live java classes when it is compiling an application.

Actually jythonc is a very strange beast, somewhere placed between a 
compiler (which are looking at source code) and an interpreter (which is 
importing modules to see what it is and what it contains).

> To test, I created a minimal wrapper (like jythonc.py) and used that to 
> try to make a jar.  I ran into two problems to start -- one is that the 
> generated .java files contain unqualified refs to "Object", which is bad 
> because there is also an Object.py in the jythonc package; the other is 
> that jast.Statement doesn't get packaged for some reason.
> 
> I opened the following bugs on the subject:
> 
> <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=605098&group_id=12867&atid=112867> 
> <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=605184&group_id=12867&atid=112867> 

Very good, thanks.

regards,
finn