Jose

Adding rhel9 would be good to ensure the static build linux compilers works well across linux distributions, we build them in Ubuntu 24.04.

We should create an Ice SwiftUI greeter demo. the UI should be similar to the one in Android version from https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice-demos/pull/517 But based on the Swift code from swift/Ice/greeter

Add Ctrl+C handler to JavaScript demos

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The JavaScript demos do not install a Ctrl+C handler. The default Node.js behavior simply calls process.exit(), which causes the process exit without calling communicator destroy when the user presses Ctrl+C.

According to the doc this is required to allow application to receive multicast packages. We acquire it upon starts and never release it. I think this might be only required...

The IcePy extensions validate Types, to ensure dispatch and invocation are called with the expected types. This type validation is redundant with the validation done by the type checker now...

Load slice improvements

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This PR improves loadSlice to avoid redefining types, when there are multiple loadSlice calls. We always run Slice compiler for all the given Slice files, this return a list of...

Add Ice.compileSlice public method to Ice for Python

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This is useful to dynamically compile Slice to Python, instead of loadSlice https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/blob/54e6c6d0b9e9d5208b600da21c061b7aa05d2ed9/scripts/Util.py#L30-L40 loadSlice is problematic when you load the same file multiple times, as classes get redefined and it...

Consider adding an Include directive to config files

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I think will be nice to have a Include directive that allow to split configuration files: ``` # # IceSSL Configuration # Include config.IceSSL # # Uncomment the following line...

I have two artifacts like ``` com.zeroc ice ``` And ``` com.zeroc.ice slice-tools ``` When the rebuild maven repository metadata task run, it deletes the maven-metadata.xml for the "ice" artifact...