Hoffstadter's Law states: "It always takes longer than you think, even when you consider Hoffstadter's Law."
I thought by now I'd have a Jython 2.5 release, but alas I do not. I keep wanting to get just one more feature in, but I think the time has come to freeze things and get to release candidates. Most of 2.5 is quite solid, and it's time to get it out. I plan to put together what I think will be the last beta for Jython 2.5 this Friday.
Some things are not going to make it in, for example I don't think ctypes will make it for 2.5.0. I looked over what we have so far and what I think it would take me to implement it. I don't feel confident that I can really get it together as quickly as I would like and still have it be solid. My C skills are just a little too rusty to whip it together quickly. I may make ctypes my personal sprint target for PyCon 2009 since there will be lots of ctypes knowledge floating around, particularly from the PyPy folks. Jim Baker has started a ctypes implementation which uses the PyPy work.
I'm going to try to get modjy integrated into trunk, but if I don't make it by this Friday it will just have to stay separate for this release. Jythonc work has moved to the "clamp" project that Charlie Groves started on github. Hopefully we can get that together at the same time or shortly after 2.5.0 releases.
If any committers have something they would like to get in at the last moment, now would be the time!
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I remember reading on my company's intranet, "the jython team is very close to releasing 2.5" Well, that was 12 months ago.
sigaev: wow 12 months ago, that was pretty aggressive :) -- I think I'm about 2 months late from my own predictions. I'm serious about getting 2.5 out within weeks, enough to drop some features that I really wanted in.
thank you Frank.
and thanks to all the other we don't know helping jython 2.5 to roll out.
from my predictions you are 'just in time' an that is 'formidable' !
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