On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 17:54 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi all, > > as you may know J5 is working on the Python3 port of PyGObject and he > has found that porting the gio static bindings is a lot of work and > somewhat useless as the rest of the static bindings aren't likely to > be ported to Python 3 at all. > > I would like to put for consideration the idea of moving gio from > pygobject to pygtk, so it is not destabilized by pygobject's port to > Python 3. The code generator is in the same situation, so it could > also be moved to pygtk.
Would it be easier to put the static gio bindings in their own repository/package? How do we imagine this playing out with dependencies? Does the distributor build two binary packages from the PyGObject sources (one against Python-2, one against Python-3)? PyGtk -deps-> PyGIO + PyGObject(2) -> Python-2 and gir-packages -> PyGObject(3) -> Python-3 I don't think they belong in pygtk. As for the code generator, it was quite a pain when it moved from pygtk to pygobject wrt. build setups. What is the problem with it staying in PyGObject if the GIO stuff moves out? > I know that pygtk doesn't have an excess of maintainers right now, but > these modules should be relatively mature already. Agree. I was one of the first large-scale users of the GIO bindings, and they took at least 2 cycles to get to a stable state. Finally, I would be saddened if the port to Python3 destabilised PyGObject very much. PyGObject is stable software, and backward compatibility breakages should be unacceptable (but deprecations welcomed). > > There's also the question of what to do with the Gtk and Gdk overrides > in http://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject/tree/gi/overrides and their > tests, which don't really belong to pygobject. I can't comment on this one sorry. Regards, John > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > _______________________________________________ > python-hackers-list mailing list > python-hackers-l...@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/python-hackers-list _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/