[pygtk] [ANNOUNCE] PyGTK 2.21.0

[Mark Schafer]

Thanks for clearing that up John,
I would humbly like to request an additional windows build for Python 
2.7 if at all possible.
(But thanks for the link to the build it yourself info.)
MarkS...

On 8/11/2010 12:10 AM, John Stowers wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 23:43 +1200, Mark Schafer wrote:
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>> Thanks John,
>> For windows users - can you comment on whether we should use the
>> PyGObject interface as you recommend for Gnome users ?
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> For windows users, I will get a PyGtk binary up some time in the next
> week (or else you can follow the build instructions in README.win32). I
> recommend sticking with GTK2 and PyGTK on windows for a while yet. On
> linux I expect things to mature faster.
>
> Personally, I don't like being the *first* person to use new software.
> I'm pretty pragmatic about this sort of thing, and if you wanted to use
> PyGObject + GObject introspection + GTK3 + Windows you would be in a
> very small set of people and I would not be confident that it would
> work.
>
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>> Also any notes on what else we have to load besides the GTK+ binary to
>> get it all working. e.g. pycairo
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> See README.win32 in the source directory, but basically, GTK+Glib
> +PyGObject+PyCairo+Python
>
> John
>
>    
>> Thanks. MarkS...
>>
>>
>> On 8/8/2010 11:42 PM, John Stowers wrote:
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>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> A new unstable development release of the Python bindings
>>> for GTK-2 has been released.
>>>
>>> The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org and its mirrors
>>> as soon as its synced correctly:
>>>
>>>    http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.21/
>>>
>>> Note:
>>> PyGtk 2.22 will be the last release in the PyGtk series. It
>>> will support the GTK-2.22 API. New users wising to develop
>>> Python applications using GTK are recommended to use the
>>> GObject-Introspection features available in PyGObject.
>>> Existing authors of PyGtk applications are also
>>> recommended to port their applications to PyGObject
>>> if they wish to take advantage of new features appearing
>>> in GTK-3.0 and beyond. More information on PyGObject
>>> and the GObject-Introspection features can be found at;
>>>
>>> http://live.gnome.org/PyGObject
>>>
>>> Additionally, the version number of PyGtk has been incremented to
>>> 2.21.0. The final stable PyGtk release will be 2.22.0, aligned with
>>> the GTK-2.22.0 release.
>>>
>>> What's New:
>>> New features since PyGtk-2.17.0 (2.18.0 was never released) include
>>>    * Wrap new API added in GTK/GDK 2.21/2.22
>>>    * Wrap new API added in GTK/GDK 2.20
>>>    * Add forgotten API from GTK/GDK 2.12/14/16/18/20
>>>    * Windows build and compatibility fixes
>>>    * Many bug fixes
>>>
>>> Bug reports, as always, should go to Bugzilla; check out
>>> http://pygtk.org/developer.html and http://pygtk.org/feedback.html for
>>> links to posting and querying bug reports for PyGTK.
>>>
>>> John Stowers
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>>>
>>>
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