On Jan 10, 2008 10:48 AM, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > It's quite common knowledge that pygtk/pygobject programs are bad for > power usage. Newer versions of pygtk and pygobject contain code that > requires API from python trunk to solve this issue. However, our python > 2.5 doesn't have that code. > > http://blogs.gnome.org/johan/2008/01/04/enough-wakeups-in-python-programs/ > describes the issue, it's from the pygobject/pygtk developer that > integrated the new code. > > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/python/python2.6-set_wakeup_fd4.patch?rev=1.1 > is the backport to python 2.5 done by redhat. > > I would like to apply the python wakeup patch, put this new python in > testing and build the new pygobject/pygtk releases against it. > > Though the added python API is development code, it's an API addition > that doesn't touch existing API, so our python will stay compatible with > old python scripts/libraries/etc. The downside of the patch is that this > new API could be not the final API, which requires us to update the > patch whenever it changes. As this patch has been developed by python > and pygtk developers together, I don't see problems here. > > So the question is: is it ok to apply the patch to our python package?
It sounds good to me assuming we have decent testing done for it.
