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@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ Current maintainers: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.co.uk>
Paolo Borelli <pborelli@gnome.org>
Ignacio Casal Quinteiro <icq@gnome.org>
Sebastian Pölsterl <sebp@k-d-w.org>
-
+ Simon Feltman <sfeltman@gnome.org>
+
This archive contains bindings for the GLib, and GObject,
to be used in Python. It is a fairly complete set of bindings,
@@ -36,17 +37,16 @@ New versions of this package can be found at:
Mailing list
============
-pygobject share mailing list with pygtk. You can subscribe to it through
-the web interface:
- http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk
+pygobject development is discussed on the GNOME python-hackers mailing list.
+You can subscribe to it through the web interface:
+ https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/python-hackers-list/
Requirements
============
* C compiler (GCC and MSVC supported)
- * Python 2.3.5 or higher
- * Glib 2.22.4 or higher
- * GIO 2.22.4 or higher
+ * Python 2.7 or higher
+ * Glib/Gio 2.35.9 or higher
* libffi (optional)
Copyright Information
@@ -66,12 +66,15 @@ build, it should be as simple as running:
$ make
$ make install
-If your Python interpreter isn't in the path, or is not called
-"python", you can set the PYTHON environment variable to the full path
-of the interpreter:
+By default, configure searches for a few well-known Python interpreter
+names, such as "python3", "python2", "python2.7", or "python". If your
+Python interpreter isn't in the path, or is not called "python", you can
+configure pygobject to build against that with --with-python=<path> or
+setting the PYTHON environment variable:
- $ PYTHON=/prefix/bin/python
- $ export PYTHON
+ $ ./configure --with-python=python3
+ $ PYTHON=python3.2 ./configure
+ $ ./configure --with-python=~/my-patched-python/python
If configure can't find GTK+, you may need to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
environment variable to help it find the libraries.
@@ -96,7 +99,9 @@ Getting Help
============
If you have questions about programming with PyGObject, you might want to
-send a message to the mailing list (information on subscribing is
-above). Alternatively, your question may be answered in the PyGTK FAQ:
+check the documentation on
+
+ https://live.gnome.org/PyGObject/
- http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/?req=index
+If that does not help, send a message to the mailing list (information on
+subscribing is above), or join #python on irc.gnome.org.