[DotGNU]Pnet and scripting (python angle)

[Gopal V]

Hi Everyone,
        I spent a better part of tonight trying to embed python into
the Portable.Net runtime and write a pyrun executable. 

The effort seems promising enough to follow , IMO . I have however
had some nasty issues with linking those .a files from pnet . And
il_engine.h seemed to be missing in ${prefix}/include/pnet. 

Also we will need to work quite a bit to map all the types used by 
the ilrun internals to achieve a VM to Python bridge .(ie not only
the IL or C# types).

So obviously someone will have to sit down and write wrappers for
all the ILType,ILMethod,ILClass and the other numerous IL* data
structures , as well as wrap all the functions in some meaningful
way.

IMO this is a lot of work to handle with the current number of VM
hackers around .... Also we need someone who'll grokk python as well
as Portable.Net ...

So I would suggest that we close the python via the VM angle until
the 0.4 release.... 

I would still like to ask rhys about a VM via Python (like it uses GTK)
angle of things. 

But first things first !... (sleep ?)

Gopal
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