[pygtk] Is the pygtk tutorial still being maintained?

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Oct 20 18:53:31 WST 2008


John Finlay <finlay at moeraki.com>:
> Yes there are a lot of sections of the tutorial that have become  
> out-of-date and should be rewritten. I lost interest in maintaining the  
> tutorial (and time) a couple of years ago due to other commitments, etc.  
> I hope someone will volunteer to take up the challenge.

I'm not signing up to be permanent maintainer, but I'm in a good position
to do an update pass right now.  I have had my SVN write access to the 
GNOME repo revived for this purpose.

>> 4. How can I set a single dimension on a widget to be fixed in the
>>    presence of resizes?
>>   
> I don't know of any easy way to do this.

I was afraid you'd say that...

>> 5. What, exactly triggers the appearance of scrollbars with automatic policy?
>>   
> If I understand your question correctly I've assumed that when the  
> window became smaller than the widget required allocation in a direction  
> that the scrollbar would appear.

That makes sense.  I'll have some more questions about this later on.

>> I note that the last update was in 2006.  Is this document still being
>> maintained?  Are the sources in a version-control system that I might
>> get write access to?
>>   
> I think Gian answered this. You'd have to get checkin access (ssh) for  
> svn on the gnone servers.

I have it.  My assumption was that the tutorial would be in the pygtk 
module under docs, next to the reference.  It doesn't seem to be.  
Where else should I be looking?
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