Re: [pygtk] moving some stuff from pygobject to pygtk

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Tomeu Vizoso
<tomeu vizoso collabora co uk> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 22:37, John Palmieri <johnp redhat com> wrote:
>> Hmm, seems my original e-mail never made it to the list.  Thanks for posting this Tomeu.
>>
>> ----- "John Stowers" <john stowers lists gmail com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 17:54 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > as you may know J5 is working on the Python3 port of PyGObject and
>>> he
>>> > has found that porting the gio static bindings is a lot of work and
>>> > somewhat useless as the rest of the static bindings aren't likely
>>> to
>>> > be ported to Python 3 at all.
>>> >
>>> > I would like to put for consideration the idea of moving gio from
>>> > pygobject to pygtk, so it is not destabilized by pygobject's port
>>> to
>>> > Python 3. The code generator is in the same situation, so it could
>>> > also be moved to pygtk.
>>>
>>> Would it be easier to put the static gio bindings in their own
>>> repository/package?
>>
>> Easier isn't the word but a one time pain of setting up a new project and creating a new autotools build shouldn't be too bad.
>
> Ok, we need now a volunteer :)

If this is the consensus then I could do it.

However, any idea who I would have to poke to create a new repository
that also preserves the gio git history?

John