Re: ANNOUNCE: new versions of pygtk and gnome-python

["Spud" <spud has a godcomplex com>]

    I can't get past the configure script, because it complains about devel
packages...are these required? gnome.org doesn't say so...also, what is
gnome-python used for? Do I need it?


>I have released new versions of pygtk (python bindings for GTK) and
>gnome-python (python bindings for GNOME -- includes pygtk).  It is mainly
>a bug fix release, but there are a few new features including:
>  - wrappers for gnome_canvas_item_affine_relative and absolute.  I also
>    added a module gnome.affine that can be used to help construct the
>    affine transformations from simpler ones.
>  - It should be possible to build the package with srcdir != builddir
>    now.
>  - If you set the environment variable PYGTK_FATAL_EXCEPTIONS to a non
>    null value before starting the a pygtk program, an exception in a
>    signal handler or callback will cause the event loop to exit as well.
>    This is useful for debuging scripts with debuggers like pdb, as you
>    get access to the traceback.
>  - Miscelaneous bugfixes.
>
>Pygtk will soon be up on:
>  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/
>
>and gnome-python (which includes pygtk) is available at:
>  ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-python/
>
>Both packages are also available from my ftp area at:
>  ftp://ftp.daa.com.au/pub/james/python/
>
>James Henstridge.
>
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