Il giorno mer, 02/09/2009 alle 14.59 +0200, Michael Hansen ha scritto: > Hello there! > > I have a few questions about the project: > > 1. Why is the PyGTK project released as 3 separate packages, if you need them > all to get Python scripts working?
Because they are 3 separate projects, which provide bindings for 3 separate C libraries. Though their gtk counterparts for Windows have been bundled together in the "GTK+ bundle", as far as I know (but I'm not an expert in the field) nobody did a bundle for pygtk. (I'm assuming you use Windows because in (almost) any Linux distro, the dependencies system takes care of installing the needed dependencies, so this is not an issue). > > 2. Are there any intentions to integrate this project into GIMP to provide > native support for Python? Or will it always stay as a seperate project? I am > just asking because of the fact, that more and more GIMP scripts are written > in Python, so that it would theoretically make sense. It wouldn't thoretically make sense for pygtk to "live" into GIMP: maybe the original meaning of "gtk", which is "the Gimp ToolKit", gave you a biased impression: gtk - and similarly pygtk - is a project which now has (reached) the target of being a library of much broader scope than just providing a GUI to the gimp. So I'd say yes, it will always stay as a separate project. However, python _does_ partially integrate pygtk, since gimp-python plugins use it for the graphic interface. Given that gimp is a C program, I can't imagine any support more "native" than that... > > 3. Is it necessary to use the installer or would it be enough just to extract > all needed files into the Pythonxx\Lib\site-packages directory? > And if that's possible, it would be great, if you could also offer > zip-packages besides the installers. I think I remember it's enough to extract all needed files in the right folders... but I frankly don't see the utility of .zip files (on the contrary, I seem to remember that manually installing files was a pain). Pietro Battiston _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [email protected] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
