Re: [Jython-users] Jython 2.7b4 released!

[Jeff A. <ja...@fa...>]

Thanks for that endorsement. (Go us!) The ctrl-D/ctrl-Z thing is 
contrary to (user) expectations I agree.

Jeff Allen

On 20/02/2015 01:15, Pekka Klärck wrote:
> 2015-02-19 7:18 GMT+02:00 Jim Baker <jim...@py...>:
>> It's worth test driving. I just downloaded the jar that's linked to make
>> sure everything is still working. After doing a standard install, I go to my
>> installation directory:
>>
>> $ bin/jython -m ensurepip
> First of all, pip support is awesome! How complicated would it be to
> have pip installation as an optional functionality in the installer?
> That's, AFAIK, how CPython installers on Windows handle pip nowadays.
>
>> Try the built-in tab complete too.
> This is great too!
>
>> Note that this functionality does not yet work on Windows, but I'm working
>> on that at this moment, once I figure out how wrapper exe scripts work :)
> Tab completion seems to work fine on Windows, but I assume the above
> comment was about pip support. The only problem I noticed with Jython
> console on a quick test on Windows was that exiting it requires Ctrl-D
> and not Ctrl-Z as with CPython.
>
> Anyway, Jython 2.7 beta 4 seems to be a great release. Based on my
> testing on Linux and Windows it is so solid that we can finally drop
> Jython 2.5 support with Robot Framework. Already looking forward for
> rc1!
>
> Cheers,
>      .peke