Re: New gnome-sdk images with gnome-builder app bundle

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On tor, 2015-01-15 at 10:48 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:

> > With regards to python, I tend to agree with you on where the line should be
> > drawn, even though I am not an expert on the details of its standard
> > library; in general I think it would be an interesting exercise to put
> > together a minimal build with whatever is necessary to get pygobject
> > running.
>
> another argument to keep the Python dependency list small is that for
> every piece of software we include in the GNOME platform we get to be
> responsible for security updates.

Well, the python build would be from the one maintained by yocto, so we
buy some level of support there. Although we still have to be aware of
things there and update our base when yocto revs.

> we can easily control what we create, and rely on a bunch of other
> projects for lower levels of the stack, but taking on the whole of
> Python's standard library may require far too many resources, unless
> we choose a suitably well-maintained, slow-moving subset, which would
> imply python2 instead of python3.

Is python2 interesting though? python3 seems more forward looking, and a
better match for a gtk ui (sane unicode, etc). Also i though pygobject
was python3 only, but i may be confused.

What python version is most used by people doing gtk apps in python?

-- 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 Alexander Larsson                                            Red Hat, Inc 
       alexl redhat com            alexander larsson gmail com 
He's a suicidal hunchbacked cyborg in drag. She's a warm-hearted mute 
safe cracker trying to make a difference in a man's world. They fight 
crime!