Jython 2.2 Released
Frank Wierzbicki: On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that
Jython 2.2 is available for download. See the installation instructions.This is the first production release of Jython in nearly six years, and it contains many new features:
- new-style classes
- Java List integration
- PEP 302 implementation
- iterators
- generators
- __future__ division
- support for running on modern JVMs
- a new installer
- ssl and non-blocking support for socket
This gives Jython the same set of language features as Python 2.2.
For a more complete list of the additions from 2.1 to 2.2, see the NEWS file in the release. Only the version numbers changed in the code from 2.2rc3 to this release.
Woohoo!!
Woohoo!! indeed.
Woohoo, only 4 years behind!
Taking a look at the main Python download page:
http://www.python.org/download/
it looks like Python 2.2 shipped in early 2003, so it looks like Jython is only 4 years (and 3 significant versions) behind. Somehow I am less than overcome with excitement by this. It seems to me that stepping from "real" python to Jython is still a big leap back, a very tough sell to Python developers.
Woohoo, only 4 years behind!
hi there,
Do we know anything about their roadmap ? It would be nice to know if they intend to JUMPSTART and the next version they will build is 2.5.x ? ActivePython on windows ships 2.5.1.1.
Weblogic ships jython as an admin language. I'm sure if weblogic and others support the effort, jython should soon be shipping python 2.5. If some of the committers are good, then sun should NOT have any hassles in getting them onboard and sponsoring most of their work :-)
P.S : Not affiliated with sun in any way just reflecting on their message so far.
BR,
~A