RE: [Jnumerical-general] Re: Porting issues and Jython 2.2

[brian z. <bz...@zi...>]

> According to the changes.txt of Numeric 21.0, Numeric now implements true
> division operatons relying on Python 2.2 whatever this means. I
> have no clue,
> but it seems like Numeric uses the new features of Python 2.2.
>

True division means '1/2' will return '0.5' not '0'.  Jython supports this
in CVS.

> I don't use CVS Jython so I'll take your word for it. Does it
> mean that Jython
> now implements iterators? I seem to recall that it was the big change.
>

Jython in CVS does support iterators.  The core objects have been updated to
make use of the new API.

> How is Jython going along? Jython seems frozen as far as I can
> tell. Jython as
> it is, is good enough for my purposes, but if we are going to
> rely on it more
> heavily to keep up with Python, then we should know that it is
> doing well.
> The mailing list seems active, but I don't see many releases.
>

There's only four maintainers.  Two of us don't have much to do with the
core language changes such as new style classes and generators so there's
not alot of development time available to such big changes.  It's really too
bad so few resources are available.

brian