Joe George

**Version(please complete the following information):** - Ice 3.7 Give a Slice file with this interface: ```slice interface SimpleInterface { /** * Note: a < b > c */ string simpleOperation(int...

Currently, all output from `_z` is sent to `stdout` (https://github.com/rupa/z/blob/master/z.sh#L214). ``` alias ${_Z_CMD:-z}='_z 2>&1' ``` This was added [here](https://github.com/rupa/z/commit/84ace8e8a93dff216dda126f6686a497bd0057a6), presumably because some output (namely lists) was going to `stderr` Moving...

Investigate building and testing MATLAB with GitHub Actions.

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There's lots of cpp98 code in the `slice2cpp` compiler that needs to be removed.

Should we open an issue to get rid of this const cast? _Originally posted by @externl in https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/pull/1774#discussion_r1484409111_

Currently, the Slice compilers on Linux and macOS have runtime dependencies, namely `mcpp` and the C++ runtime. We should consider statically linking these to make the binaries more portable. This...

PyPI build failure on macOS Sonoma 14.2.1

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A user reported the following: Hi, I tried to install zeroc-ice by running python3 -m pip install zeroc-ice on MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1, and it stuck on "Building wheel for zero-ice...

csharp/IceSSL/configuration intermittent failure

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We're getting this on `main` ci, ubuntu-latest. ``` *** [49/54] Running csharp/IceSSL/configuration tests *** [ running client/server test - 01/31/24 22:01:27 ] (dotnet /home/runner/work/ice/ice/csharp/test/IceSSL/configuration/msbuild/server/net6.0/server.dll --Ice.Default.Host=127.0.0.1 --Test.BasePort=14000 --Ice.Warn.Connections=1 --Ice.Default.Protocol=tcp --Ice.IPv6=0 --Ice.ThreadPool.Server.Size=1...

Disallow hold->activate-hold->... pattern

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I think we should simplify in a follow-up PR and eliminate this ability to hold->activate->hold->activate. Why would you ever do that? _Originally posted by @bernardnormier in https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/pull/1676#discussion_r1455942521_

When installing the python package with `-v` I noticed this warning for all our our modules. ``` check.warn(importable) /opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/command/build_py.py:202: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: Installing 'slice.Ice' as data is deprecated, please list it in...