Re: 3.2: gjs/seed

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu sugarlabs org>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 23:59, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> Right now in gjs, you do this:
>
> imports.gi.versions.Gtk = '3.0';
>
> I assume there's nothing stopping Python from using the same technique, and
> I know they've talked about it before.

We have basically the same thing:

gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')

Regards,

Tomeu

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Josselin Mouette <joss debian org> wrote:
>>
>> Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 19:12 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit :
>> > On the other side of the coin though, I think we largely failed to
>> > make JavaScript a compelling way to write apps.  The language is only
>> > a part of the question, and it's really not a large one.  We need to
>> > focus more on a build/deploy story, and less on /usr/bin/gjs.  By
>> > "build" I mean we really shouldn't be leaving it up to app authors to
>> > figure out how to use Automake with gjs/seed and to do
>> > "imports.gi.Gtk".  Deploy is another story.
>>
>> If you are putting this on the table, it might not be too late to
>> rethink the way modules are imported in JS applications (and this holds
>> for Python applications, too).
>>
>> When you use "imports.gi.Gtk", you don’t even know whether you’ll be
>> getting GTK+ 2.x or GTK+ 3.x. This is horribly wrong. Just as wrong as
>> most modules in Python, the lack of versioning leads to horrible
>> breakage at runtime when there are API mismatchs. This is a ball and
>> chain we’ve been pulling since the pygtk 1.x vs. pygtk 2.x times, and it
>> is still here with GI.
>>
>> There should be a way to specify the API version required when you
>> import the module, and it should even be mandatory.
>>
>> --
>>  .''`.      Josselin Mouette
>> : :' :
>> `. `'  “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone,
>>  `-    […] I will see what I can do for you.”  -- Jörg Schilling
>>
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