On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Curt Hagenlocher <curt at hagenlocher.org> wrote: >> We reached an important milestone in the IronPython project this week >> with the release of IronPython 2.0 beta 4. But it's not our code that >> makes this release so remarkable -- it's yours, the Python developers. >> For the first time, Microsoft is including the standard Python >> library as part of what you can download from CodePlex. Previously, >> users of IronPython who wanted to make use of the urllib module (to >> give just one example) would have to download the CPython distribution >> separately and then fiddle with the bits on the disk to make them work >> together. That is no longer the case. >> >> Of course, this isn't any kind of great technical achievement -- but >> it is legal and cultural progress here at Microsoft. All of us >> working on the IronPython and IronRuby projects are committed to >> pulling the company in a more open source direction, so it's very >> gratifying to see this happening. >> > > Glad you were able to work out what you needed internally to see this > happen, Curt! Indeed, very good news. It made Google's internal open source list already. :-) Congrats on the release, Curt and team!! -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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