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

[From: Luciano Miguel Wolf]

Hi Frantisek,

The source code will be migrated soon to PyMaemo svn, but I don't have 
an exact date. It will be coded in C and will have a daemon and a 
app-launcher. By now it will support only pygtk, but this can be 
configured in future versions. You have to choose carefully each module, 
because some of them have specific startup configurations. It will be 
possible to control the startup (load when the first python app run or 
disable it) trough gconf keys. Calling python without arguments will 
call python2.5. Now about memory usage, it will be shared (python and 
pygtk) by each new process.

Thanks for your interest. We all hope to see PyMaemo pre-installed in a 
near future :)

Regards,
Luciano

ext Frantisek Dufka wrote:
> 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