3 Original authors: James Henstridge <james@daa.com.au>
4 Johan Dahlin <johan@gnome.org>
6 Current maintainers: Gustavo J A M Carneiro <gjc@gnome.org>
7 Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net>
8 Gian Mario Tagliaretti <gianmt@gnome.org>
10 This archive contains bindings for the GLib, GObject and GIO,
11 to be used in Python. It is a fairly complete set of bindings,
12 it's already rather useful, and is usable to write moderately
13 complex programs. (see the examples directory for some examples
14 of the simpler programs you could write).
16 If you have any enhancements or bug reports, please file them in
18 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=pygobject
20 If you have a patch, file the bug first and then use the "create new
21 attachment" link on the bug's info page. My preferred format for
22 patches is unified diff format (ie. diff -u). Please don't send me
23 diffs which don't have any context, as these make it very difficult to
24 see what the patch does.
29 New versions of this package can be found at:
30 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygobject/
36 pygobject share mailing list with pygtk. You can subscribe to it through
38 http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk
43 * C compiler (GCC and MSVC supported)
44 * Python 2.3.5 or higher
45 * Glib 2.22.4 or higher
46 * GIO 2.22.4 or higher
47 * GIO-unix 2.22.4 or higher
53 This software is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public Licence
54 (version 2.1, or if you choose, a later version). Basically just don't
55 say you wrote bits you didn't.
60 PyGObject uses the standard autotools for the build infrastructure. To
61 build, it should be as simple as running:
63 $ ./configure --prefix=<prefix where python is installed>
67 If your Python interpreter isn't in the path, or is not called
68 "python", you can set the PYTHON environment variable to the full path
71 $ PYTHON=/prefix/bin/python
74 If configure can't find GTK+, you may need to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
75 environment variable to help it find the libraries.
77 The "make install" target will generate normal and optimised bytecode
78 for all the .py files.
80 Note. If you're installing to another prefix than the one where python
81 is installed you'll need to set the PYTHONPATH variable to the
82 $prefix/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages directory created by
83 the PyGObject installation.
88 After having compiled and installed pygobject, you may want to test them.
89 There are a number of example programs available in the examples/
96 If you have questions about programming with PyGObject, you might want to
97 send a message to the mailing list (information on subscribing is
98 above). Alternatively, your question may be answered in the PyGTK FAQ:
100 http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/?req=index