On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 12:01 -0700, Robin Dunn wrote: > Announcing > ---------- > > The 2.8.9.0 release of wxPython is now available for download at > http://wxpython.org/download.php. This release adds support for using > Cairo for drawing on wx windows, adds a Win64 build, and various other > fixes and enhancements. > > Source code is available, as well as binaries for Python 2.3, 2.4 and > 2.5, for Windows and Mac, as well some packages for various Linux > distributions. A summary of changes is listed below and also at > http://wxpython.org/recentchanges.php. > > > > What is wxPython? > ----------------- > > wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It > allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly > functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is > implemented as a Python extension module that wraps the GUI components > of the popular wxWidgets cross platform library, which is written in > C++. > > wxPython is a cross-platform toolkit. This means that the same program > will usually run on multiple platforms without modifications. > Currently supported platforms are 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows, > most Linux or other Unix-like systems using GTK2, and Mac OS X 10.4+. > In most cases the native widgets are used on each platform to provide > a 100% native look and feel for the application. > > > Changes in 2.8.9.0 > ------------------ > > Many minor bug fixes throughout wxWidgets and wxPython. > > Fixed wx.lib.embeddedimage to work with Python 2.3. > > Fixed PseudoDC hit testing when pure white or pure black are used. > > Added support for a 64-bit Windows build for the AMD64 architecture, > (a.k.a. x64.) This is for Python 2.5 only and is available only as a > Unicode build. > > Added the wx.EmptyBitmapRGBA factory function. > > Added the wx.lib.wxcairo module which allows the pycairo package to be > used for drawing on wx window or memory DCs. In addition it is able > to convert from a native wx.Font to a cairo.FontFace, and it also > provides functions for converting to/from wx.Bitmap and > cairo.ImageSurface objects. In order to use this module you will need > to have the Cairo library and its dependencies installed, as well as > the pycairo Python package. For Linux and other unix-like systems you > most likely have what you need installed already, or can easily do so > from your package manager application. See the wx.lib.wxcairo > module's docstring for notes on where to get what you need for Windows > or Mac. This module uses ctypes, and depending on platform it may > need to find and load additional dynamic libraries at runtime in > addition to cairo. The pycairo package used needs to be new enough to > export the CAPI structure in the package namespace. I believe that > started sometime in the 1.4.x release series. > > Added the wx.lib.graphics module, which is an implementation of the > wx.GraphicsContext API using Cairo (via wx.lib.wxcairo). This allows > us to be totally consistent across platforms, and also use Cairo to > implement some things that are missing from the GraphicsContext API. > It's not 100% compatible with the GraphicsContext API, but probably > close enough to be able to share code between them if desired, plus it > can do a few things more. > > Updated wx.Bitmap.CopyFromBuffer to be a bit more flexible. You can > now specify the format of the buffer, and the CopyFromBufferRGBA is > now just a wrapper around CopyFromBuffer that specifies a different > format than the default. Also added the complement method, > CopyToBuffer. See the docstring for CopyFromBuffer for details on the > currently allowed buffer formats. The existing wx.BitmapFromBuffer > factory functions are also now implemented using the same underlying > code as CopyFromBuffer. > > Add wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.ListRowHighlighter for automatic highlighting > of rows in a wx.ListCtrl. >
I'm curious, why do you package wxPython for Fedora 6 and 7, but not 8 and 9? --Ratfink -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list