I guess I should answer as I'm the maintainer in Fedora. See inline. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Harmsen" <mharmsen@redhat.com> To: akurtako@redhat.com, "David Malcolm" <dmalcolm@redhat.com>, jmatthew@redhat.com Cc: pki-devel@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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