[Pki-devel] Future availability of Jython 2.5 (and/or preferably Jython 2.7) in Fedora?

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

I guess I should answer as I'm the maintainer in Fedora. See inline.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Harmsen" <mharmsen at redhat.com>
> To: akurtako at redhat.com, "David Malcolm" <dmalcolm at redhat.com>, jmatthew at redhat.com
> Cc: pki-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 12:18:16 AM
> Subject: Future availability of Jython 2.5 (and/or preferably Jython 2.7) in Fedora?
> 
> Alexander, David, and John,
> 
> I am a developer on the Dogtag project (see
> http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dogtag) and am currently one of the
> engineers that are re-writing the installation/configuration
> framework
> in Python 2.7. Since a large part of Dogtag 10 is written in Java
> 1.7,
> we are currently using the existing "Jython 2.2" that exists in
> Fedora
> 16/17 as a bridge to a new Java configuration servlet (Python 2.7 -->
> Jython 2.2 --> Java 1.7).
> 
> I have recently seen on the web that a project has been funded for
> the
> creation of Jython 2.7 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jython)
> which
> would allow us to potentially run our Python 2.7
> installation/configuration code as a single Jython 2.7 process,
> instead.
That's really cool it was stagnating for quite some time.

> 
> I am writing to you regarding the current availability of "Jython
> 2.2"
> in Fedora, and would like to inquire about the potential future
> availability of "Jython 2.7" in Fedora (or even "jython 2.5" since it
> at
> least contains the "logging" mechanism).
> 
> Are any of you aware of any plans in Fedora to move from Jython 2.2
> to
> Jython 2.7 once it becomes available?
> 
> If so, would any of you be aware of any timeframe for adoption by
> Fedora?

Currently I maintain jython only because it's needed by eclipse-pydev and pydev is still at 2.2 level. Having said that I don't have time for both updating jython to 2.5+ and updating pydev to work with it. So if someone is ready to work on updating jython package I'll do my part and fix pydev. So it's all about someone helping - I'll push it as soon as someone updates it so Fedora 18 is a possibility and if it proves to be stable I wouldn't mind backporting it to Fedora 17 too.

Regards, 
Alex

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -- Matt
> 
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