Re: Problems with Orca and Accerciser calling GConf client and at-spi2

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu vizoso collabora co uk>]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 16:27, Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com> wrote:
> From: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu vizoso collabora co uk>
>
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 17:22, Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So my question (please, if there are a best ml, point that, AFAIK,
>>> there isn't a gobject introspection mailing list):
>>>
>>>  * There is a way to force to "load the old python bindings" when you
>>>    call "import gconf" ?
>>
>> The problem here is that the python classes that wrap GType types are
>> kept in a cache indexed by GType. This means that whatever wrapper for
>> a given GType gets loaded the first will stick for the rest of the
>> life of the process.
>>
>> See http://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject/tree/gobject/pygobject.c#n891
>>
>> We could do some hacks to workaround this but given that pygtk are the
>> only supported bindings for gtk+2 and pygobject+introspection are the
>> only supported bindings for gtk+3, probably python modules in GNOME
>> should keep separate branches depending on the gtk+ version they are
>> supposed to work with.
>
> Ok, thank you very much for the information. As far as I undertand
> you, in the specific case of pyatspi2, it would be required to
> maintain a non-pygobject-introspection version for the apps still
> using gtk+2, and use the current pygobject+introspection based on
> master for apps using gtk+3 (so, ported to pygobject+introspection).
>
> Right=

Yes, that's the only supported scenario AFAIK.

Regards,

Tomeu

> BR
>
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