For those of you who haven’t seen Tomeu Vizoso’s blog on the hackfest we are trying to pull together this is a second call to PyGObject, Python 3 and GtkIntrospect hackers who might want to join us in getting the future of the Python bindings to GTK sorted out.
At issue are a couple of roadblocks to the continual maintenance of the the bindings. First is the lack of support for Python 3.0 and second is the unclear picture of how GNOME 3 effects us. The current plan is to finish the work done on PyGI (Python GObjectIntrospect support for PyGObject), at the same time making sure it all works under both Python 2.x and Python 3.x. Moving to the PyGI bindings should make the maintenance burden somewhat lighter for our busy maintainers.
If you have something you can contribute and are interested in attending our hackfest please take a look at the wikipage and e-mail myself or Tomeu. While this is being sponsored by the GNOME Foundation, you don’t need to be a Foundation member to be considered for an invite. We hope to be finalizing things soon and getting a budget to send to the board for approval.
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Would be nice to see more elements come to the windows bindings by default:
rsvg (there are builds of this floating around already).
gconf
Comment by Stu — February 11, 2010 @ 4:09 pm
rsvg might be deprecated by cairo which has excellent bindings. The nice thing about moving to PyGI is you can get pretty good coverage if a library exports gir files.
Comment by J5 — February 11, 2010 @ 4:33 pm
Great, thanks John! Let’s post it through twitter and that stuff…
Btw, feel free to update the new hackfest template/process in case you find something missing.
Comment by Diego Escalante Urrelo — February 11, 2010 @ 5:26 pm
Hello,
Only note that there is a GnomeGoal to add GObjectIntrospection to libraries: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AddGObjectIntrospectionSupport
As J5 said, if your library has GObjectIntrospection support, you’ll get binding for some languages by free.
More info: http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection
Comment by Javier Jardón — February 11, 2010 @ 8:55 pm