Interesting to see you using Ironpython for a large application. I'd be interested to hear your comments on following:

1.. Are you combining IP with C# assemblies where speed is an issue.

2.. How are you going to protect your Intellectual property? Or is it an OS project.

Guy
Guy | 06/05/25 - 11:52 pm | #

We have about 1% C# in our code base. In our production code it is only our program launcher, the rest is in our test code.

Where we have hit speed issues we have so far been *completely* successful at optimising our Python code, long may that continue.

Our program will not be open source. A lot of the Python source can be distributed with the program, but we will need to protect some.

At some point IronPython will allow us to compile Python into assemblies. If that doesn't happen soon enough, we will have to find another solution.
Fuzzyman | Homepage | 06/05/26 - 10:00 am | #

Coirrection - we have some clipboard specific stuff in C# in our production code. Still a tiny minority of our code base.

The reason for the C# is not for performance, but because of a problem with .NET attributes in IronPython.
Fuzzyman | Homepage | 06/05/26 - 1:43 pm | #

Cheers,

I didn't realise they were working towards compiling of assemblies. That's pretty cool!!

Guy
Guy | 06/05/26 - 9:42 pm | #