Re: [Jython-dev] Mercurial?

[Charles O. N. <cha...@su...>]

Frank Wierzbicki wrote:
 > * The gui UI is tcl-tk -- that would have to be re-written, although
 > the commandline use hopefully won't be too hard to get and would be a
 > good start.

Yeah, I wouldn't sweat the GUI at all right now. The key interesting bit 
is going to be having it working and usable by Java programs as an API.

 > * It is min Python 2.3 so it is likely that the coming release will
 > not be good enough, since it is largely based on 2.2 (though it has
 > some 2.3 features).  However, we have an alpha working with 2.3 level
 > features already.

The sooner the better, even if it was based on a intra-release milestone 
that had "enough" 2.3 features to make it go.

 > * Hard to say what else might be missing since the above problems
 > prevent the rest from running -- but so far it looks like something
 > that could be done...

I think it could drum up a new round of folks to help work on Jython. It 
would show that something tangible in the Python world can work, which 
is a great seed.

- Charlie