[ANNOUNCE] PyGTK 2.15.2 - unstable

[news 28]

A new unstable development release of the Python bindings

for GTK+ has been released.

 

The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org and its mirrors

as soon as its synced correctly:

 

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.15/

 

Thanks to Paul Pogonyshev who has done all the hard job preparing this release.

 

Blurb:

 

GTK+ is a toolkit for developing graphical applications that run on

systems such as Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It provides a comprehensive set

of GUI widgets, can display Unicode bidi text. It links into the Gnome

Accessibility Framework through the ATK library.

 

PyGTK provides a convenient wrapper for the GTK+ library for use in

Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as

managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyORBit and

gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications.

 

Like the GTK+ library itself PyGTK is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is

suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It

is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose

scripts up to large full features applications.

 

What's new since 2.15.1?

- Rename gtk.Statusbar.remove() to gtk.Statusbar.remove_message (Paul)

- Allow pango.Context creation (Paul, #550855)

- Make gtk.gdk.Pixbuf.add_alpha accept integers, retaining backward

compatibility accepting also chars (Paul, #586094)

- Protect window obj from GC in gtk.window_get_toplevels (Gustavo, #574259)

- Plug huge number of memory leaks in Pango wrappers (Paul)

- Add gtk.gdk.WINDOWING constant (Paul, #555112)

- Wrap gdk_pixbuf_apply_embedded_orientation (Chris Wilson)

- Modernize constructors of seven more types (Paul)

- Don't free a string we don't own (Paul, #585458)

- Some docs tweaking (Gian)

 

Bug reports, as always, should go to Bugzilla; check out

http://pygtk.org/developer.html and http://pygtk.org/feedback.html for

links to posting and querying bug reports for PyGTK.

 

cheers

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Gian Mario Tagliaretti

GNOME Foundation member

gianmt ( -at -) gnome.org

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