[maemo-developers] New release of Python2.5 for Maemo

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Luciano Miguel Wolf wrote:
> What's planned?
> ---------------
> Next release is planned to have a beta version of Python-Launcher. It is 
> a daemon that loads heavy modules, like pygtk, and just fork every time 
> python is called. This reduces the startup time of applications using 
> pygtk.

Just curious, any more details on this? I did a quick look at 
pymaemo-developers archive and browsed pymaemo SVN tree but failed to 
find any details or code in progress. I wonder how configurable it will 
be (i.e list of modules preloaded in the launcher, could and should I 
still launch separate python for simple non-gui python stuff?) and how 
it will play with memory - will each (forked) python instance with gtk 
and everything take additional memory (like now) or will be most/all of 
it shared. But I guess we'll see when the beta arrives in next release 
(any ETA?).

Thanks for the release BTW, I hope we'll see quick and lean python 
runtime preinstalled (or in some repository enabled by default) in the 
tablets in future.

Frantisek