[Sugar-devel] Port to TelepathyGLib

[Rahul Bothra]

Hi,

I started understanding how Telepathy and DBus work, and porting our code
to use their PyGI bindings instead of static bindings, and it looks like a
big task.
Also, GitHub search gives 72 results
https://github.com/search?p=5&q=org%3Asugarlabs+%22from+telepathy%22&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
for instances of telepathy

Instead, Should we pack the static binding port of Telepathy inside
Sugar-Toolkit. The only change that will then have to be made will be:
"from telepathy.foo import bar" will have to be changed to "from
sugar3.telepathy.foo import bar"

Please suggest if there can be any disadvantages in following this approach
? (Sorry, if it is obvious)

Regards
Rahul Bothra (Pro-Panda)




On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 3:56 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:02:49PM +0530, Rahul Bothra wrote:
> > - Rahul will also contact upstream(s) of Telepathy to ask their
> >   plans of a Python 3.x Telepathy version
>
> Telepathy upstream suggested using PyGObject API, available for both
> Python 2 and Python 3.
>
> https://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/#TelepathyGLib-0.12
>
> On Ubuntu 18.04 install package gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 and then
> this test passes;
>
> $ python2
> >>> from gi.repository import TelepathyGLib
>
> $ python3
> >>> from gi.repository import TelepathyGLib
>
> For the moment, development can happen with your static binding port
> of Telepathy, but we should not plan to rely on it, because
> downstreams already have a Python 3 Telepathy in the form of
> TelepathyGLib.
>
> So we must port.
>
> https://github.com/orgs/sugarlabs/projects updated with new "Port to
> TelepathyGLib"
> https://github.com/orgs/sugarlabs/projects/4
>
> <quote>
> Change from
>
>         from telepathy.foo import bar
>
> to
>
>         import gi
>         gi.require_version('TelepathyGLib', '0.12')
>         from gi.repository import TelepathyGLib
>
> Prerequisite for Port to Python 3.
> </quote>
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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