Re: Call to maintainers: GNOME 2.31 to ship GTK 2.90

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu sugarlabs org>]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:05, John Stowers
<john stowers lists gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> A separate but related issue is that unless somebody plans to update
>> gtk-sharp, Tomboy may not be GTK3 compatible this cycle (I don't know
>> off-hand what parts of gtk-sharp may be incompatible with GTK3).  Do
>> other non-C apps have similar issues, or is this just a problem with
>> the Mono bindings?
>
> AFAIK (and please correct me if I am wrong), but the story is the same
> for PyGtk; it builds against Gtk-2.0 and not 3.0.
>
>  * What does this mean for Python apps and GNOME 3.0 / 2.31

To the best of my knowledge, nobody has stepped yet to make PyGtk work
with Gtk+ 3.0. But PyGI's goal is to work with both 2.0 and 3.0,
provided the needed annotation fixes are accepted in the 2.0 branch.

Regards,

Tomeu

> There is also the case of apps like Rhythmbox, Totem, Gedit, that
> support PyGtk plugins
>
>  * Will these apps lose plugin support this cycle?
>
> John
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