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Last released version: PyGTK Shell 1.90.7

The PyGTK Shell provides widgets derived from PyGTK optimized for interactive programming as well as an interactive, extensible PyGTK console for the rapid prototyping of GUI applications. It can be embedded by PyGTK applications.

It is freely available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later. (PyGTK Shell versions up to 1.90.4 were published under the GNU GPL v2 instead.)

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2007-Jun-22

On Wednesday, June 20, I was able to do some basic testing of the current PyGTK Shell on a friend's Microsoft Windows XP computer and I'm proud to report that the current PyGTK Shell works on that platform without trouble. Thanks to Leif-Erik Dörr!

On Thursday, June 21, I was able to help Matteo Forni out over IRC with setting up PyGTK and PyGTK Shell on his Apple Mac OS X computer so that it runs successfully using an X Server with Python 2.4 and the necessary packages installed from Darwinports / Macports. He also tested the provided Twisted integration on that setup. On that same day, Flemming Kjær Jensen also reported that he got PyGTK Shell to work under a similar setup. Thanks guys!

So for the releases around PyGTK Shell 1.90.7 I hereby gladly announce that they have now been successfully tested on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), Windows XP, and Mac OS X.

2007-Jun-03

PyGTK Shell 1.90.7 released.

Remember that 1.90.x are development releases — the API will change, so do not (yet) depend on it for large-scale developments.

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2007-May-30

PyGTK Shell 1.90.6 released.

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2007-May-29

The Git repository has been moved to repo.or.cz.

2007-May-28

PyGTK Shell 1.90.5 released.

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2007-May-27

PyGTK Shell (1.90.3 and) 1.90.4 released.

This release was prompted by an external dependency.

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2007-May-25

PyGTK Shell 1.90.2 released.

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2007-May-23

PyGTK Shell 1.90.1 released.

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2007-May-22

PyGTK Shell 1.90.0 released. Source (tar.gz)

The release series 1.90.x is a major update! This series shares no (major) code with the previous 0.9.x release series.

Remember that 1.90.x are development releases — the API will change, so do not (yet) depend on it for large-scale developments.

There is now a public Git repository, and the documentation (and website) now uses AsciiDoc.

The development focus for 1.90.0 was a clean rewrite of the provided widget classes. It has some features that 0.9.1 does not have, but at the same time also lacks some of the features that 0.9.1 had. The major drawback is that no sophisticated console got included in this release (but a raw console is available). If you want a better console to work with, stay with the 0.9.1 release for now.

The new code is much easier to read and more thoroughly documented. I personally already prefer developing programs using the new PyGTKShell.API module a lot over using the "plain" gtk module, even at this quite early stage. The PyGTK Shell is by no means complete, but everything it does contain is already completely usable.

2007-Jan-17

PyGTK Shell 0.9.1 released.

2006-Sep-25

PyGTK Shell 0.9.0 released.

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