Re: [Jython-users] State of the language 2018-01-01?

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

Mike:

Thanks for your encouragement.

I think it's an oversight that jython.org still shows 2.7.0 as the 
current version. See 
http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/jython-271-final-released.html 
. A concurrency bug emerged in 2.7.1, which is the only good reason I 
know not to promote it, and in other ways it is a desirable upgrade.

1) For what's happening in development jython-dev mailing list would be 
your best bet.

2) Ambition often outruns our ability to contribute. We aim for a 2.7.2 
in the New Year, and I tagged 2.7.2a in the code base without 
remembering Jim's ambition to support Gradle in that release 
specifically. I've looked at Gradle (at the time of Jim's post I think) 
but have not used it myself, so am not well-placed to contribute on it.

github.com/jythontools/jython simply tracks the official repository at 
hg.python.org/jython, to which we push all new work.

We are preparing to move to a workflow based at GitHub. That would 
include mastering the website jython.org from GitHub, making fixing 
oversights a team game.

Jeff Allen

On 01/01/2018 13:40, Mike Rodent via Jython-users wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jython is my favourite language but it's not exactly mainstream. 
> Looking at the decline in the number of postings to this group I was 
> getting the impression that interest has been declining since 2007.
>
> At jython.org the latest reference there is to 2.7.0, May 2015.
>
> Imagine my surprise, then, when doing a bit of general searching about 
> using Jython and Gradle, to find this page: 
> github.com/jythontools/jython - said to be "a mirror" of jython.org!
>
> Here I find that the latest readme was updated a month ago... It's not 
> signed or dated but makes reference to a talk by Jim Baker in 2015.  
> But the Jython version here is 2.7.2a.  An alpha version... so, for 
> one thing, how come 2.7.1 is not present in beta at jython.org?
>
> At bugs.jython.org/issue2182 I also find Jim Baker himself saying in 
> March 2016 that use of Gradle is a "top priority" for 2.7.2.
>
> I've always assumed that jython.org was the place to go to find out 
> what's the latest in the language... but I just did a search for 
> "gradle" there and nothing came up: one's impression at that site, 
> presumably intended to be the home of all things Jython, is that 
> nothing at all has happened to the language since 2015.
>
> So two questions:
> 1) where's the best URL to bookmark to keep up with the latest in what 
> the developers are doing (is it maybe github?)
> 2) is there an idiot's guide anywhere to using 2.7.2a with Gradle?
>
>
> <http://bugs.jython.org/issue2182>
> Thanks ... and keep up the good work!
> Mike
>
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