Re: [gpsd-dev] GPSD and the Python 3 transition

[Eric S. Raymond]

Fred Wright <address@hidden>:
> You may have seen my more recent post about the updated xgps working on
> OSX with py-gobject3 from Macports.  I only tested it with Python 2.7, but
> py-gobject3 is available for some Python 3 versions (via the usual
> versioned subport mechanism that MacPorts uses for Python code).

I have since forward-ported xgppspeed.  Unlike cgps, which is dependent on
the compiled clienthelpers module, "python3 xgpsspeed" can be tested in place
on current Ubuntu.  So we're now completely moved to Gtk 3.0 using Python-GI.

A side effect of this was an update I just finished to Practical Python Porting:

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/practical-python-porting/

It describes how to get over the bumps in the transition to Python-GI. Which
aren't really bad, but there are some inexplicablr gaps in the documentation.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>