On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Tycho Andersen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a note to let everyone know that all of our planned 0.9 changes > (i.e. moving to new dependencies everywhere) have landed. Lots of > fundamental parts of qtile have been swapped out: > > * xpyb -> xcffib > * pycairo -> cairocffi > * pangocairo -> in tree pangocffi > * gobject event loop -> asyncio event loop > > This means that, among other things, there are probably bugs that we > haven't worked out. Please (!) help us by testing the development > branch! Although the dependencies have changed, one advantage is that > they are considerably easier to install; full instructions for > installation are available at [1]. > > Once our changes [2] are merged into cairocffi and a release is cut, > qtile and all its dependencies will be available simply via a 'pip > install'. This branch also runs on python3 and the tests pass on pypy > (although I don't think anyone has actually tried to run qtile on pypy > yet, let me know if you have any problems with that :). > > Thanks to everyone involved, especially Sean Vig for a lot of work on > this. I started working on xcffib in a hotel room in Atlanta several > months ago, and here we are with a fully future proofed qtile! > > [1]: > https://github.com/qtile/qtile/blob/develop/docs/manual/install/source.rst > [2]: https://github.com/SimonSapin/cairocffi/pull/39 > > Tycho
Arch users, qtile-git[1] on aur now points to develop again, and uses this dependencies. If you want to use the release version, without new dependencies and cool stuff, there is qtile package[2] on aur. [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qtile-git/ [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qtile/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
