[maemo-developers] Python Launcher released

[From: Luciano Miguel Wolf]

I am pleased to announce Python Launcher for Maemo OS2008.

This release is available from[1]:
Maemo webpage -> Downloads -> OS2008 -> System

What's it?
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Python Launcher is a daemon to speedup Python applications, mainly those 
using pygtk.

It runs a daemon, responsible for importing modules/forking python 
interpreter. By now the only module cached will be pygtk (that takes ~2s 
to import). When user runs a python script the launcher will send it to 
the daemon.

How to use?
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There is a GUI to configure startup behavior. Selecting "at startup" the 
daemon will be load automatically at boot time. "first py app" will 
force daemon to be loaded just after the first py app is loaded. This 
saves memory, but first py app doesn't have any speedup. "disabled" will 
keep PyLauncher disabled :).

Applications must call "python" instead of "python2.5" otherwise 
PyLauncher will not be used to load them.

What's planned?
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I've just applied a request to host this project at garage, so at moment 
it doesn't have a svn/bugzilla but it's just a matter of time.
As the project evolves it will be moved from extras-devel to the extras 
repository.

In a next release we hope to import more modules. This involves some 
tests. We plan to release a bora version. To do this it's necessary to 
patch bora's pygtk as we did with chinook's pygtk.

Acknowledgements:
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Thanks to everybody who helped making this release possible.

Bug reports, by now, can be reported by email. As we have a bugtracker 
you will be informed.

Regards,
Luciano Wolf

[1]
https://maemo.org/downloads/product/128edd26fc4911dc81826d04b963acb6acb6/