Re: Proposing module: PyGTK

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 21:20 +0100, Johan Dahlin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As the PyGTK herder[1] I'd like to propose it for inclusion in developer
> platform or desktop platform. However I think it makes more sense in the
> developer platform at this point since it's not yet used by any
> applications in the desktop release.
> 
> Description:      Python bindings for gobject/atk/pango/gtk/libglade
> Project homepage: http://www.pygtk.org/
> 
> Documentation is good, we have a reference manual[2] covering for
> everything but libglade, a FAQ[3] larger than the GTK+ one and an
> excellent tutorial[4].
> 
> PyGTK does not currently bind anything from GTK+ 2.5.x, but since it
> seems to be only minor API additions (compared to 2.4) it's shouldn't be
> too difficult to add before 2.10. 
> 
> The main point of proposing PyGTK to be included in the developer
> platform (or perhaps the desktop if people find it more acceptable) is
> simply to allow people to chose another language to develop applications
> than C and make it "officially" supported by the community.

Why is it necessary to add this to the developer platform? I see no
problem with the Desktop depending on some things in the Bindings
platform. And we have already established, on this list, that there is
an overwhelming consensus that Desktop modules should be allowed to use
pygtk if their maintainers want to.

> Please note, this is *NOT* a good time to discuss:
> a) Python sucks. The foo Language, which does X, Y and Z is superior.
> b) Rewrite GNOME in Python, which is obviously not going to happen,
> Python is meant to be an alternative to C, not replacing it.
> 
> Before posting, please consider reading the old thread(s) from a couple
> of weeks ago [5]
> 
> [1] some people might call me 'maintainer'.
> [2] http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/
> [3] http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
> [4] http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/
> [5] http://lists.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-
> September/thread.html#00298 and http://lists.gnome.org/archives/desktop-
> devel-list/2004-September/thread.html#00563
> 
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