Re: [pygtk] Release Candidate 1: pygtk-2.2.0-RC1.tar.gz

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 23:10, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> A Dom, 2004-03-07 ās 19:02, Murray Cumming escreveu:
> > On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 16:14, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> > > Hey there,
> > > 
> > > We're providing a new PyGTK release candidate for testing:
> > > 
> > >     http://www.gnome.org/~jdahlin/pygtk-2.2.0-RC1.tar.gz
> > 
> > That's great. Well done, and I hope this means you'll try to put pygtk 
> > on the GNOME Platform Bindings 2.7/2.8 schedule.
> 
>   Not likely happen, I'm afraid.  We're not willing to split
> gnome-python just to be part of some "meta package".
>   To justify this position, I can think of at least the following
> arguments:
> 
> 	1- Distributions can already split gnome-python into individual binary
> packages (one per python module) as they want, and many already do just
> that, such as Fedora;
> 
> 	2- All modules are optional, dependent on the respective C libraries;
> 
> 	3- The split between developer and desktop platform is time varying. 
> For example, I can foresee libgnomeprint* becoming part of developer
> platform sooner or later.  Perhaps even gtkhtml2, who knows? Are we
> going to keep moving bindings from one package to another as modules are
> added to devel platform in the future?
> 
>   If the GNOME Platform Bindings release team is willing to amend the
> rules, we are willing to make an effort to follow release schedule and
> maintain API compatibility.

Is that the official decision of the gnome-python maintainer?

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