On 07/09/10 15:35, Ken Moffat wrote:
>   I've just built my normal desktop (including an ever-increasing
> amount of gnome) with Python-2.7.
>   pygobject-2.20.0 fails.  To get round this it's necessary to use a
> *development* version (2.21.5) where various things have been
> wrapped to cope with the 2.7 changes.

What problem do you have with pygobject-2.20.0? It compiles and gives me 
no problems with python-2.7

> For this reason, I can't
> recommend 2.7 for the BOOK at this time.
>
As I understand it the packages which broke with python-2.7 were relying 
on bugs in python-2.6. It was fixing the bugs which caused them to break 
(I can't find the link just now and it was just someone's opinion on a 
mailing list so that could be wrong).

Andy
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