Re: Dia ChangeLog report for Thu Jan 16 08:23:02 2003 (UTC)

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Hans Breuer wrote:
> At 17:33 16.01.03 -0600, Lars Clausen wrote:
>>On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Hans Breuer wrote:
> [...]
>>> Why add those Gtk dependency to the startup file again ?
>>
>>That is to make sure that we use Gtk 2.0, not 1.2.  Otherwise it crashed
>>on me.
>>
> Please try again. The plug-in gtkcons.py desperately needed porting
> to gtk2 (which is done now). Only adding pygtk.require("2.0") did
> not fix it.

Ok, after some strange crashing due to libspace pollution, it now works
again, without the gtk import.

> But the file python-startup.py does _not_ need pygtk nor any UI code. 
> It is just used to load the plug-ins, which may or may not depend 
> on pygtk. I.e. at least half of my PyDia plug-ins don't use any 
> pygtk code which makes them work even if you don't have pygtk 
> but only pydia.
> 
> Having plug-ins without UI is common with our C plug-ins, why should
> there be a difference with plug-ins written in Python ?

That would make sense.

-Lars

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