[Telepathy] tpfarsight (Python) and GObject Introspection Incompatibilities

[Mystilleef]

2011/8/24 Olivier Crête <olivier.crete at collabora.com>:
> On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 10:52 -0400, Mystilleef wrote:
>> 2011/8/24 Olivier Crête <olivier.crete at collabora.com>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 08:55 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 08:35, Mystilleef <mystilleef at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hello,
>> >> >
>> >> > My application suddenly stopped working after an upgrade. So I spent
>> >> > the better part of today trying to figure out why. It turns out the
>> >> > latest version of gobject-introspection is very strict and doesn't
>> >> > allow mixing non-introspectable python bindings with introspectable
>> >> > ones. Fortunately, my app runs its tpfarsight streamer in its own
>> >> > process. So it was easy to revert to using old school python bindings
>> >> > for gobject.
>> >> >
>> >> > To cut the long story short. I think the python bindings for
>> >> > telepathy-farsight and or farsight wouldn't work with the latest PyGI
>> >> > and gobject-introspection. Is this a known issue? Should I file a bug
>> >> > report?
>> >>
>> >> I'm not maintainer of those modules, but I think that if you think the
>> >> bug is in those, you should put it in bugzilla. If you think the
>> >> problem lies in pygobject or gobject-introspection, use
>> >> bugzilla.gnome.org instead.
>> >
>> > I maintain the python bindings for farsight and tp-fs, the reason
>> > they're not using gi yet is that GStreamer isn't and probably won't be
>> > before 1.0.
>> >
>>
>> Cool! I think they might have started to use gi.  A look at
>> dir(gi.repository.Gst) shows many of the most important elements are
>> available. How well they work is a completely different story. I'll
>> test it out later when I have time.
>
> Except that I think important bits like the buffers, events and queries
> are not covered (because they're GstMiniObjects which are not GObjects).
>
>

Aha, I didn't catch that.

Lateef