Bug#262161: packaging ironpython

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

hi,

regarding this package - ironpython.

ironpython 0.9.4 _does_ work, _can_ be compiled, but you _do_ need the
very latest version of debian/testing mono compiler - 1.1.10 - and
associated libraries.

ironpython 0.6 only works with mono 1.1.9, and ironpython 0.6 does NOT
properly understand mono's System.XML: it fails to read XML documents
correctly, whereas 0.9.4 succeeds.

i presume that ironpython 0.9.5 may work, but i could not get it to
compile with mono 1.1.10.

now.

here's where people are going to get upset.

ironpython 0.9.4 and 0.9.5 is released under the [believed to
be OSI acceptable] open source "shared source" license.

_please_ do NOT consider this "unacceptable".

at the VERY least, please place the software in a "nonfree" or "contrib"
category rather than go "uhn.  microsoft wrote the shared source
license, therefore it's shit, therefore we're not having it".

ironpython is extremely powerful, and should not be placed down the
toilet just because of that.

thank you.

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