On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 23:24, John Stowers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > > John >> > > >> > > [1] http://github.com/nzjrs/pygtk/commits/gtk-3.0 >> > > [2] http://github.com/nzjrs/pygobject/tree/gtk-3.0 >> >> What's the status of this now? Is there every likely to be a pygtk >> release for GTK+ 3? >> > > I suspended the work during the large round of gtk+ breakage (rendering > cleanup mainly) and have not had the time to return to it. > > My original goal was to do this in a backwards compatible way. With the > recent API changes to gtk+-3.0 this is no longer possible, things like > the expose/draw transition will be too hard to manage in PyGtk. > GtkApplication making use of GVariant are also going to be difficult to > wrap, minimally, the old way. > > That said, I did receive some negative feedback about the idea. > PyGObject is the recommended way in future, and keeping PyGtk alive > might actually hold the platform back. There is certainly some truth in > that argument. In short, I am not sure what do do.
Don't bother adding 3.x support to PyGTK. Let it remain at current released version forever, and give it only security/critical fixes. A good migration (to PyGobject) guide should do, at least for the most popular tasks. -- blog: http://tshepang.tumblr.com _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [email protected] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
