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Date:      Wed, 21 May 2014 11:45:08 +0200
From:      John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
To:        Olivier Duchateau <duchateau.olivier@gmail.com>, marino@freebsd.org
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: x11-toolkits/py-gtk2
Message-ID:  <537C75A4.6080308@marino.st>
In-Reply-To: <CAHcdu2o8=ret7WwpWvjFtqrN6wGOxj3A_-LqFbCMyXhzfwmupw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/20/2014 18:20, Olivier Duchateau wrote:
> 2014-05-20 14:38 GMT+02:00 John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>:
>> On 5/20/2014 14:18, John Marino wrote:
>>> Hi Gnome team,
>>>
>>> The new version of devel/gps is built with gtk3 and needs the gtk3
>>> version of py-gtk which does not exist.
>>>
>>> Is this port already planned or built and not yet committed?
>>>
>>> If not, would there be an objection to be adding the port?  In that
>>> case, who would be the maintainer?
>>
>>
>> Hmm, py-gtk3 may not actually exist.
>> Here's a quote from the main site:
>>
>> "Note: New users are encouraged to use GTK+3 through the PyGObject
>> bindings instead of using PyGTK with GTK+2. Windows users may still want
>> to keep using PyGTK until more convenient installers are published."
>>
>> I think GPS already uses pygobject so there may be no issue at all.
> 
> You need devel/py-gobject3.
> 
> PyGTK is obsoleted, new code uses Introspection through PyGObject.
> 

Thanks for the tip, Olivier.  I was using pygobject so you saved me!
John



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