Re: Using Python v3.3 while building Glib

2015-05-13 Thread Fan, Chun-wei (范君維)
Hi John, John Emmas 於 2015/5/13 下午 04:34 寫道: 1) For historical reasons we need to build with VC8. That's rarely supported now in gtk+ libs. Yeah, I understand this as I maintain the Visual Studio files, it's hard to come by with Visual Studio 2005 legally cheaply nowadays (read: Express).

Re: Using Python v3.3 while building Glib

2015-05-13 Thread John Emmas
On 13/05/2015 09:02, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wrote: Hi John, are you using https://github.com/nice-software/gtk-win32/ ? If not, any reason to not use it and improve it for your use case? Thanks Ignacio. That looks like a useful resource and I should maybe consider it. For our purposes

Re: Using Python v3.3 while building Glib

2015-05-13 Thread John Emmas
On 13/05/2015 09:38, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wrote: Hi John, basically the nice-software one is fork of the hexchat one which also adds vc 2010 projects and gtk 3. When they update the repo we rebase and we also try to keep the gtk3 ones updated. Hi Ignacio, Just out of interest - what

Re: Using Python v3.3 while building Glib

2015-05-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On 13/05/15 08:59, John Emmas wrote: Are the .pyc files just used internally by python itself (in other words, the name isn't important)? Yes. For instance http://raulcd.com/how-python-caches-compiled-bytecode.html looks like a reasonable summary. -- Simon McVittie Collabora Ltd.

Re: Using Python v3.3 while building Glib

2015-05-13 Thread Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
Hi John, basically the nice-software one is fork of the hexchat one which also adds vc 2010 projects and gtk 3. When they update the repo we rebase and we also try to keep the gtk3 ones updated. Cheers. On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:34 AM, John Emmas john...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: On 13/05/2015

Re: Using Python v3.3 while building Glib

2015-05-13 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Fan, Chun-wei (范君維) fanc...@yahoo.com.tw wrote: [ ... ] It isn't possible for John to use anybody else's build of the GTK stack, because we apply patches to parts of it that have been turned down for inclusion in the mainline GTK2 tree.

Re: Using Python v3.3 while building Glib

2015-05-13 Thread John Emmas
On 13/05/2015 11:16, Simon McVittie wrote: Yes. For instance http://raulcd.com/how-python-caches-compiled-bytecode.html looks like a reasonable summary. That's an excellent link Simon. Thanks for digging it out. John ___ gtk-devel-list mailing

Using Python v3.3 while building Glib

2015-05-13 Thread John Emmas
I'm building Glib (from Git) using MSVC. FWIW I use my own MSVC projects (rather than the supplied ones) although that isn't relevant here. What's relevant is that, while building libgio, a bunch of python files get converted to binary equivalents. This is all connected with gdbus-codegen

Re: Using Python v3.3 while building Glib

2015-05-13 Thread Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
Hi John, are you using https://github.com/nice-software/gtk-win32/ ? If not, any reason to not use it and improve it for your use case? Cheers. On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:59 AM, John Emmas john...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: I'm building Glib (from Git) using MSVC. FWIW I use my own MSVC projects