Jython 2.2 Alpha 1 Is Out
Brian Zimmer: Well an alpha is finally out. It’s available here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12867&package_i
According to SourceForge, the last release of Jython, version 2.1, was more than three and a half years ago (2001/12/31, 1295 days ago.) Hopefully Jython development and usage will pick up some steam again.
From the Release Notes:
Welcome to Jython 2.2a1 ======================= This release includes many major changes since the last full release: - new-style classes - Java Collections integration - PEP 302 implementation - iterators - generators - __future__ division - support for running on JDK1.5 - new installer - a significant number of features to bring Jython in line with CPython - many, many bugfixes It was compiled a OS X with JDK1.4 but should run on JDK 1.2 +. The full set of changes are too numerous to list in detail. Please consult the sourceforge tracker for all closed issues since the last release. Please email jython-dev@lists.sourceforge.net with questions. thanks, The Jython Development Team