Re: PyGI merged into PyGObject

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu vizoso collabora co uk>]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 17:15, Tomeu Vizoso
<tomeu vizoso collabora co uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the merge finally happened, PyGI has found its (hopefully) definitive
> home.

What we need to do before we can make a release with it:

- MUST: remove the direct dependency on cairo,

- SHOULD: find a place for the.py override modules we currently have
for Gtk, etc.

For the first one, two alternatives have been proposed:

- make the cairo integration shim be a loadable module that is built
conditionally,

- load the symbols we need from cairo by dlopen'ing libcairo at runtime.

For the second:

- move them to pygtk,

- move them to a single new package (pygobject-compat?),

- convince library authors to ship those in the same tarball.

Any opinions, more alternatives?

Regards,

Tomeu

> Thanks a lot to Johan Dahlin for doing most of the work, J5 and
> me mostly just massaged the tests so they pass again.
>
> I have closed the PyGI component for new bugs and have moved all the
> open ones to pygobject/introspection:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=pygobject&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=introspection
>
> Johan has added some of us to the pygobject maintainers in bugzilla
> but some will be missing, please ping any of us and we'll add you.
>
> PyGI maintainers: please add yourselves to the pygobject.doap and
> README files in pygobject.
>
> We still need to setup a new IRC channel, mark the obsolete modules in
> git clearly as such and keep working on the wiki pages to make them
> more clear and complete:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/PyGI
> http://live.gnome.org/PyGObject
>
> Any help as always welcome.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tomeu
>