[Gramps-users] gnome-python versions

[Don A. <don...@co...>]

One of the problems that we've always had is determining how long to 
support a particular platform. Linux, FreeBSD, python, and GNOME all 
move forward rather quickly, which tends to make it difficult to support 
  older distributions. In order to support the newer distributions, you 
either have to stop supporting older distributions or the support factor 
goes through the roof, preventing new development.

Alex and I would like to eliminate the need for GRAMPS to ship its own C 
library (grampslib.so). This is very difficult to keep up to date, since 
  it is dependent on the version of python you have installed on your 
system. We have to maintain different versions for python 2.0, python 
2.2, python 2.3, and now we have python 2.4. In addition, it adds 
additional installation requirements on various platforms.

We can get rid of this library if users have gnome-python 2.0.2 or 
higher installed on their systems. Most newer distributions are already 
shipping this. I know that Red Hat 9 and Red Hat EL 3 ship an older 
version (1.99.14).

Please check your distribution and see what version of gnome-python your 
system uses (sometimes is called gnome-python2, pygnome or python-gnome) 
If it uses a version of older that 2.0.2, please let me know.

One of the problems we have is that we do not know who is using GRAMPS 
on what platforms. So we may be wasting a lot of effort trying to 
support systems that are no longer in use.

Thanks

Don