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https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2009-August/msg00017.html

In addition, IronRuby/IronPython/DLR may make it in to FC 13, thanks to Brett.

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The FLOSS Weekly folks (including my homie, Randal) just published this week’s interview. It is with Michael Foord, who I just met a couple weeks ago. He published a book about IronPython. He mentions Mono, the DLR and IronRuby, too ;)

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I sent an email to the Fedora Legal list asking whether they will accept software released under the MS-PL license. My friend and former colleague, Brett Lentz mentioned that he was concerned that the Fedora folks might not accept software released under the MS-PL. ( Read more... )

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An update on recent changes to the IronRuby packaging.

1. We’ve changed the name of the source package because
2. We’re packaging IronPython as well as IronRuby (thanks doko!)
3. I’ve added the wrapper scripts (irake, igem, etc.). Maybe this is showing that I’m not a heavy user…
4. ( Read more... )

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I got props for hosting the IronRuby/IronPython continuous integration. Yesterday was SysAdmin Appreciation Day. I feel appreciated.

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cjac@dev0:/usr/src/git/alioth$ sudo dpkg -i ironruby-cil_0.9.0+dfsg_all.deb ( Read more... )

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http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-cli-libs/packages/ironruby.git;a=tree;f=debian;h=c5642e8a4a4aa3b5e15af5f607a1604f3169bd47;hb=449af4392c1fbddacee4f52b9998e23e674a7434

*whew* now I won’t have to worry about losing (or misplacing) my changes.

Thanks meebey and #debian-cli ( Read more... )

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Thanks to Marek being a superhero, we have isolated the changes necessary to fix the compiler from the 2.4.2.3 tag so that we can build IronRuby with xbuild. I’ve delivered the patch to meebey, and he has included it in his debian/patches list.

Without this patch, I ( Read more... )

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I’m too busy to make two separate blog entries, so here is an update on my Mono work for the day.

I’ve helped get the mono-2.4.2 debs moving. The mono-api-diff tool was removed after the 2.2 branch, so I grabbed it from the attic, dusted it off and patched it for use ( Read more... )

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Ivan has updated the build script to produce IronPython binaries as well as IronRuby. Get your fresh DLR-powered, mono-friendly, dynamic language implementations here:

http://dlrci.colliertech.org/

There are now links to source and binary tarballs as well as source ( Read more... )