Re: [pygtk] Using python + pygtk in Desktop modules (was Re: Revisiting the Gnome Bindings)

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

Seg, 2004-09-27 às 12:05 +0200, Mikael Hallendal escreveu:
> Johan Dahlin wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I'd say that there are basically two different options:
> > 
> > 1) Include only bindings for Gtk+ and friends (pygtk)
> > 
> > 2) Include bindings for the complete platform, that would include
> > bindings for all gnome apis (in gnome-python), orbit (pyorbit), libxml2,
> > vte, gstreamer.
> > 
> > In my opinion, if we choose a language, we should choose one which you
> > can write applications for the whole stack, or at least as much of it
> > that's available.
> 
> I totally agree, if we choose to include Python we need to make sure 
> that it's a viable solution for developing *GNOME* software, not only 
> GTK+ software.
> 
> Doesn't Python include an XML parser of it's own? If so, how useful is 
> the libxml2 bindings? I don't particulary believe in bindings that has 
> to bind all the underlying C libraries just for the sake of it, if there 
> is a nicely integrated solution in the language itself (I don't know 
> about Python and XML though).

  Even tough Python comes XML parsers (DOM, SAX), also libxml2 install a
SAX parser driver for python, and it works like a charm.

> 
> Best Regards,
>    Mikael Hallendal
> 
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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
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The universe is always one step beyond logic.