Mind Bending

Some 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 by GObject Introspection, or how it’s being called around here: PyGI.

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For those who want some more info about this change, I strongly suggest to follow the Ubuntu App Development Week, they made 2 sessions about the PyGTK deprecation and how PyGI will work. The first one is GObject Introspection: The New Way For Developing GNOME Apps in Python, JavaScript and Others, with Tomeu Vizoso, and the other was PyGTK is dead, long live PyGI! Using gobject-introspection in Python, with Martin Pitt.

Based on others libraries that I saw disappear (HAL for example), I can say that PyGTK will still be around for a while. So, there’s no need to rush and port your GTK app, we got pleanty of time for this. Beyond that, there is no official PyGI documentation (at least I haven’t found). According to what I read, the PyGI module is already available in many distributions. You can test it with the following line:

$ python -c 'from gi.repository import Gtk; print Gtk'

There is only a slight problem, everything is outdated. All the significant changes are being prepperad to be pushed to Ubuntu 11.04 and Debian Unstable.

But one thin is sure, when I put my hands on an updated version of PyGI I’ll post some tutorials about how to write GTK applications using Python and PyGI. Until then…

Magnun

Magnun

Graduated in Telecommunication Engineering, but currently working with GNU/Linux infrastructure and in the spare time I'm an Open Source programmer (Python and C), a drawer and author in the Mind Bending Blog.


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