I’m delighted to announce the release of Ironclad v0.7, which can be downloaded from the project page.  Ironclad is an MIT-licensed Open Source project, supported by Resolver Systems, that makes it possible to run C extensions written for CPython on IronPython.

This release is a major step forward:

• Runs transparently on vanilla IronPython 2.0RC2, without creating extra PythonEngines or breaking .NET namespace imports
• Many numpy 1.2 tests (from the core, fft, lib, linalg and random subpackages) now reliably pass (run “ipy numpytests.py” from the build directory)
• Significant performance improvements (by several orders of magnitude in some places :D)

So… if you want to use numpy (or other C extension modules) with IronPython on Win32, please download it and try it out; we’re very keen to hear your experiences, and to know which neglected features will be most useful to you.  The best communication channel is the Ironclad Google Group.

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