Re: What is the significance of pygtk.require('2.0')?

["Dieter Verfaillie" <dieterv optionexplicit be>]

Quoting "Tomeu Vizoso" <tomeu vizoso collabora co uk>:
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 14:13, Dieter Verfaillie
> <dieterv optionexplicit be> wrote:
> > If the proposed patch gets accepted, we will no longer be able to
> > support parallel installed bindings for multiple libg* ABI
> > versions for a single python version -> ie what happens when we
> > get libgtk+-4.0 (and 5.0, etc) and some pyg* application uses API
> > from the older libgtk+-3.X version that has been removed from the
> > newer version?
>
> Well, not really for gtk+ because gobject-introspection provides its
> own way of choosing which version to load:
>
> from gi.repository import Gtk
> Gtk.require_version('3.0')

Aaah, I see it now, its in gi/module.py... :)

> Now, when glib breaks API compatibility, then we would need something
> like this for parallel installation,

In that case could it be as simple as import gi2 and the day
glib has to break, import gi3?

Thanks,
Dieter

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