[Jython-dev] 2 weeks to Jython 2.7.1 release candidate

[Jim B. <jim...@py...>]

We are on schedule for a release candidate for Jython 2.7.1 for Thursday
November 5, which is *2 weeks from now*.

I'm aware of two outstanding issues that the 2.7.1 RC should resolve:

http://bugs.jython.org/issue2390 - Supporting SSLContext. Although we still
have some missing functionality in this support of new functionality in the
Python ssl module, it appears that it suffices for the major use case:
supporting both upstream pip and the requests package (which pip vendors).
If that's the case, I think we can postpone additional functionality until
a future release.

http://bugs.jython.org/issue2362 - from XYZ import * does not work on Java
9. This is because of the new module support in Java 9, which stops using
rt.jar for Java runtime classes. Unfortunately this causes issues for
Jython, because one of the principal reasons that Jython scans jars is to
support this pattern of behavior. It would be ideal if we can fix this bug
for 2.7.1 so that users testing Java 9 can use Jython for such code.

There are many other issues in the bug tracker. Trust me, we will not have
time to fix all of them before the RC ;), but if we need to triage their
priority, please tell us. In general, our plan is to defer any work that we
cannot complete by Nov 5 to 2.7.2, which will see its first beta this March
and a final release in May, just before PyCon 2016.

- Jim