On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 08:52:37AM +0200, Theo Buehler wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 03:31:23PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 09:57:35PM -0400, Brad Smith wrote: > > > On 6/17/2020 7:18 AM, Landry Breuil wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > after 2 years without releases, seems pidgin got a new upstream > > > > maintainer who recently did > > > > https://pidgin.im/posts/2020-06-2.14.0-released/ (and > > > > https://pidgin.im/posts/2020-06-2.14.1-released/ next) > > > > > > > > noteworthy in this update.. the python bits relying on py2/pygtk were > > > > updated for py3, per > > > > https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/src/release-2.x.y/ChangeLog and > > > > https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/38a40ddbb9b76ac8918c5743eebee51e811b43ce > > > > - which is > > > > good, as less ports depending on pygtk is wanted. > > > > > > > > and the curses toolkit used for finch was split in its own repo/lib > > > > which requires a new port: https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/libgnt > > > > > > > > brad, as the port maintainer, are you working on updating our port ? > > > > or eventually backporting the python bits so that we can remove the > > > > dependency on pygtk ? > > > > > > > > Landry > > > I don't have anything at the moment but I'll take a look. > > > > Did you make some progress on this ? On some of my machines pidgin is > > the last port depending on py-gtk2. > > Why does it actually need py-gtk2? Isn't this a leftover from the past? > > I've dropped the RDEP a while back and it works fine for me. > > I can only find one mention in a comment of the purple-notifications-example > script which isn't even packaged.
iirc some plugins do 'import pygtk'. Landry
