[pygtk] ANNOUNCE: PyGObject 2.15.1

[Murray Cumming]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:22 +0200, Johan Dahlin wrote:
> Murray Cumming wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> A guy showed up and started to write GIO documentation. I have not seen the 
> initial work which he did, I'll let you know when I get my hands on it.

Surely you have some way to at least put the generated reference
documentation online, even if there are no human-generated descriptions?

> > 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.
> 
> We're not binding the complete API, but from my head these are the 
> differences between the python and the C api:
> * Add default values, NULL/0 etc where it make sense
> * Swap argument order for cancellable arguments, so we can have a default 
> value of NULL. This makes it possible to do things such as: 
> gfile.read_async(callback)
> * gfile.read() uses a return value instead of out parameter, just like
> the builtin read method on file.
> 
> The rest is afaicr pretty straight-forward.

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