There's been a lot of interest in getting Django running on Jython lately, so I figured it's about time to prod fellow pylonauts and pyloneers about getting Pylons going on it.

I've actually been doing some Jython work lately to make this happen, though I've been focusing on getting setuptools and distutils working first, which is really its own project in and of itself. Obviously Pylons relies on the former (which heavily relies on the latter), so knocking these two off the list needs to happen sooner or later, preferably sooner.

Since Django on the other hand thinks setuptools, and external dependencies for that matter, are meddlesome, the djangonauts have gone straight to playing with Django directly on Jython. So they're a little farther ahead of us, and seem to have a number of folks actively working with it.

Full support for setuptools is getting closer: with some local, hacky patches I can get setuptools to install Pylons and most of the dependencies from cheeseshop (though it dies while installing the decorator package due to a bug in the marshal module).

For those who are ready to start hacking away, the next step would be running Pylons and all of its accompanying dependencies' tests on Jython trunk, seeing what's broken, and logging tickets and adding those problems to the PylonsOnJython page on the Jython wiki.

Of course a more interesting endeavor would be to manually install Pylons and its dependencies, and seeing what happens! Though this is a bit difficult right now with the lack of setuptools/distutils.

The main points of interest:

http://wiki.python.org/jython/SetuptoolsOnJython http://wiki.python.org/jython/PylonsOnJython

Misc:

http://www.xhaus.com/modjy/ - A WSGI compliant gateway/server Servlet for jython irc://irc.freenode.net/#jython