Comments on: End of an Era: PyGTK

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» A Change Johns Blog — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:17:21 +0000

[...] Pygtk is in maintenance mode (I need it to keep working for some of my UAV code). python-gobject and gobject-introspection are awesome and easy ways to write new GNOME apps. [...]

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PyGI, the "new" PyGTK - Mind Bending — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:45:57 +0000

[...] time ago, at Planet Gnome, I started to stumble upon some news about a PyGTK deprecation. According to that last link, PyGTK 2.24 was it’s last release. This module is being replaced [...]

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PyGI, o "novo" PyGTK - Mind Bending — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:45:38 +0000

[...] algum tempo tenho visto lido no Planet Gnome informações de que o módulo PyGTK será descontinuada. Conforme esse último link, possivelmente o PyGTK 2.24 foi a última versão lançada. Esse [...]

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Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:53:18 +0000

[...] релиза PyGTK 2.24.0, Python-биндингов к библиотеке GTK+ 2.24. По заявлению лидера проекта – это последняя ветка, обеспечение [...]

By: John Stowers

John Stowers — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 10:33:52 +0000

@Daniel, yeah I think I did too, partly. The two questions are related because of the (IMO) confusing naming.

The post needed clarification regarding the difference between unmaintained and abandoned anyway.

By: Daniel Svensson

Daniel Svensson — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 10:21:57 +0000

@John: Think you missed the question.
@Oz123: GObject-Introspection is a technology *used* by GNOME. You may use PyGObject everywhere you wish, with or without GNOME.

By: John Stowers

John Stowers — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:43:52 +0000

@Oz123: I updated the post with a little explanation.

I guess we have different meanings of the term ‘unmaintained’. Nevertheless sometimes we need to move on - the PyGObject + GObject Introspection is the future. In the interests of clarity and making things easy for new python developers wishing to write GNOME applications the simplest answer is ‘if you are writing a new python application then use PyGObject’.

I agree that we have terrible messaging. I think it is unfortunate that PyGObject was chosen for the name of the new GObject introspection stuff, it is very confusing for the thing (PyGObject) that used to be about just GObject to now be the recommended way to use GTK.

I encourage you to read the supplied links and to improve the explanations if you are unsure.

By: Oz123

Oz123 — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:05:50 +0000

Hi,

I use pygtk sometimes, and I am very disappointed to here it won’t be maintained anymore.

I think this will also hurt many projects who use GTK outside of GNOME.
Unless I don”t understand it correctly and Gobject will be independent of GNOME.
Can you put some light on it ?

Thanks for the work done so far !