[pygtk] ANNOUNCE: PyGObject 2.15.1

[Murray Cumming]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 10:38 +0200, Johan Dahlin wrote:
> I am pleased to announce version 2.15.1 of the Python bindings for GObject.
> 
> The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors
> as soon as its synced correctly:
> 
>    http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.15/
> 
> There are two new significant features in this release series, initial
> bindings for GIO. Note that these are not complete, please report
> missing API in Bugzilla so we know what people are missing.

Do you have some online documentation for this API?

This was a big job for the C++ bindings due to the strange parameter
orders, the many optional parameters, and the need to guess sensible
default paramter values. So I'm interested in how you did it for Python.

> Codegen has been moved from PyGTK and can now be used without
> depending on GTK+, which should be useful for GObject based libraries.
> 
> What's new since PyGObject 2.15.1?
>          - Rename pygtk-codegen-2.0 to pygobject-codegen-2.0 to avoid
>            conflicting with PyGTK (Paul Pogonyshev)
> 
> Blurb:
> 
> GObject is a object system library used by GTK+ and GStreamer.
> 
> PyGObject provides a convenient wrapper for the GObject+ library for use
> in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as
> managing memory and type casting.  When combined with PyGTK, PyORBit and
> gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications.
> 
> Like the GObject library itself PyGObject is licensed under the
> GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary
> applications.  It is already in use in many applications ranging
> from small single purpose scripts up to large full
> featured applications.
> 
> PyGObject requires glib >= 2.8.0 and Python >= 2.3.5 to build.
> GIO bindings require glib >= 2.16.0.
> 
> --
> Johan Dahlin
> jdahlin at async.com.br
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