[Telepathy] tpfarsight (Python) and GObject Introspection Incompatibilities

[Olivier Crête]

On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 17:39 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> 2011/8/24 Mystilleef <mystilleef at gmail.com>:
> > 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.
> 
> But it may be a good moment to start developing against 0.11 (will be
> 1.0) and reporting issues.

Many of the plugins are still not ported


-- 
Olivier Crête
olivier.crete at collabora.com
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