I am pleased to announce Python Launcher for Maemo OS2008. This release is available from[1]: Maemo webpage -> Downloads -> OS2008 -> System
What's it? ---------- Python Launcher is a daemon to speedup Python applications, mainly those using pygtk. It runs a daemon, responsible for importing modules/forking python interpreter. By now the only module cached will be pygtk (that takes ~2s to import). When user runs a python script the launcher will send it to the daemon. How to use? ----------- There is a GUI to configure startup behavior. Selecting "at startup" the daemon will be load automatically at boot time. "first py app" will force daemon to be loaded just after the first py app is loaded. This saves memory, but first py app doesn't have any speedup. "disabled" will keep PyLauncher disabled :). Applications must call "python" instead of "python2.5" otherwise PyLauncher will not be used to load them. What's planned? --------------- I've just applied a request to host this project at garage, so at moment it doesn't have a svn/bugzilla but it's just a matter of time. As the project evolves it will be moved from extras-devel to the extras repository. In a next release we hope to import more modules. This involves some tests. We plan to release a bora version. To do this it's necessary to patch bora's pygtk as we did with chinook's pygtk. Acknowledgements: ----------------- Thanks to everybody who helped making this release possible. Bug reports, by now, can be reported by email. As we have a bugtracker you will be informed. Regards, Luciano Wolf [1] https://maemo.org/downloads/product/128edd26fc4911dc81826d04b963acb6acb6/ _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
