No, the introspection code has been carefully constructed to work excellently with both python 2 and python 3. The static bindings only support python 2, so sticking with the static bindings is holding you back. Porting to introspection doesn't force you to also port to python 3 immediately, what it does is *allows* you to port to Python 3 at your leisure.
The benefit to your users is that your application will continue to exist. Python 2 and GTK 2 are going away. Sure, it might be years before they're truly gone, but it will happen eventually. Imagine for a moment if your application only ran with Python 1 and GTK 1. Nobody would even be able to run it because nobody packages those old versions anymore. They're unsupported, unmaintained, and if you found a bug in the APIs, it would simply never get fixed. Python 2 and GTK 2 are slowly moving in that direction and if you don't port away from them, users will eventually lose the ability to run your program as distros stop shipping those versions. I am not familiar with gphoto2 specifically, but yes, the introspection bindings are well maintained and if you find bugs in them, you can reasonably expect to report those and get them fixed. So yes, you'll be able to get away from the 'nightmare' of unmaintained, buggy bindings. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gexiv2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1074028 Title: Port all pyexiv2 apps to GExiv2 Status in Nautilus Image Manipulator: Fix Committed Status in pyexiv2, a python binding to exiv2: Triaged Status in Rapid Photo Downloader: Confirmed Status in SmartShine - automation for the photographers: Fix Committed Status in “creepy” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in “flickrbackup” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in “gexiv2” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “gramps” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lazygal” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in “phatch” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “pyexiv2” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “videoporama” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I have spoken directly with the maintainer of pyexiv2 and we have agreed that pyexiv2 is an abandoned project that will never support Python3. Therefore, anything that depends on pyexiv2 is going to be stuck on Python 2 until they port to GExiv2. GExiv2 is a clear winner in terms of simplicity, and maintainability. Packages marked as affected by this bug were designated so because they have a dependency on the pyexiv2 package. They will need to be ported to GExiv2 before they can be ported to Python 3. Here is the popcon data for these packages, which may hopefully allow us to prioritize this work by installation popularity: #rank name inst vote old recent no-files 6692 gramps 41836 534 41095 198 9 8296 phatch-cli 26266 734 25209 309 14 13025 videoporama 8766 120 8602 39 5 16897 rapid-photo-downloader 4683 174 4403 97 9 19941 nautilus-image-manipulator 3054 164 2816 73 1 35392 creepy 591 11 563 17 0 36572 lazygal 534 11 522 1 0 65688 smartshine 60 5 22 6 27 78375 flickrbackup 26 1 25 0 0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus-image-manipulator/+bug/1074028/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
