Re: pygobject matching glib version numbers

[Simon van der Linden <svdlinden gnome org>]

On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 11:08 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:57, Simon van der Linden <svdlinden gnome org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 10:07 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> >> The rationale is that it will help people a bit to know what to expect
> >> from a given PyGObject release. He's already numbering his PyGtk
> >> releases matching Gtk+ versions.
> >
> > I wonder whether it makes sense for PyGObject, which is not, to my
> > knowledge, a set of static binding for GLib. We don't exactly ensure
> > that all the features available in the matching GLib version is
> > available to Python developers, do we?
> 
> I think that's something we should aim for. I also consider g-i to be
> a logical part of GLib even if it hasn't been merged yet.

I'm neither in favor nor against this change. I think it will not bring
anything. In the long term, I think following GNOME's version number
(i.e. 2.31.x for now), both for PyGObject and GLib (and G-I, thus) would
make more sense.

Regards,

Simon