On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 at 14:59, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 31. 01. 21 20:44, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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> On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 at 14:29, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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> Hello Pythonistas (and especially Jythonistas),
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> I've noticed Jython is orphaned in Fedora.
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> There is a new version 2.7.2 available from March 2020. I took a peek, however
> there are patches in Fedora's Jython I don't fully understand, so it is not
> easy
> for me to rebase them.
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> Isn't Jython a Python2 implementation? I thought it was orphaned because the
> amount of Python2 needed to make it useful was getting to be problematic.
Problematic in what way? The Jython interpreter itself is independent from the
CPython 2 EOL. Like PyPy.
Problematic in that all the 'libraries' wanted by someone using Jython need to be older ones which are able to work in python2 syntax. So as more libraries in base python become Python3 only syntax, there is less and less which would work with Jython or PyPy.
> The Jython3 stack seems to be at continual catchup with Python as it is mentioning
> Python3.8 on the last times the pages are updated.
Quite recently updated thou:
https://github.com/jython/jython.github.io/pull/21
> What does having Jython remain in Fedora help with?
That's something I'd like to understand more. If there are no people using
Jython on Fedora then obviously nothing and we should not bother. Currently, it
is nice to say: "We have all the Pythons in Fedora, even Jython", but that is
not good enough reason :/
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