On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 11:40 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > For GNOME/Gtk software, and to a lesser extent Python software in > general, I would recommend GDBus via gi over dbus-python. dbus-python > has some historical design issues (too much do-what-I-mean, mostly), > and > its main advantage at this point is "compatible with legacy code that > already used it"; I can't fix the design issues without breaking that > property, at which point it would lose its one advantage.
OK, it sounds like we should leave dbus-python in gnome-world forever then, and apps will just have to not use it if they want to be in gnome -apps or gnome-core. > Please report that compilation error to freedesktop.org Bugzilla. I > know > that it can compile and work with Python 3, because Debian's > packaging > for dbus-python provides Python 2 and 3 binaries (python-dbus and > python3-dbus respectively). Yeah, Fedora does this too. Here is the bug you requested: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92678 Thanks, Michael _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
