[pygtk] moving some stuff from pygobject to pygtk

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.vizoso at collabora.co.uk
Wed Aug 25 17:05:39 WST 2010


On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 02:13, John Stowers
<john.stowers.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 17:54 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> I know that pygtk doesn't have an excess of maintainers right now, but
>> these modules should be relatively mature already.
>
> Agree. I was one of the first large-scale users of the GIO bindings, and
> they took at least 2 cycles to get to a stable state.
>
> Finally, I would be saddened if the port to Python3 destabilised
> PyGObject very much. PyGObject is stable software, and backward
> compatibility breakages should be unacceptable (but deprecations
> welcomed).

No backward compatibility breakages are planned, I was referring to
introducing bugs that the test cases don't cover.

Regards,

Tomeu

>> There's also the question of what to do with the Gtk and Gdk overrides
>> in http://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject/tree/gi/overrides and their
>> tests, which don't really belong to pygobject.
>
> I can't comment on this one sorry.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tomeu
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