Myself and the PyMaemo folks have been working these past few days to clear the blockers from making PyGi work on maemo. There was a last minute bug in the Maemo autobuilder which prevented PyGi from properly being imported into the maemo extras repository. (Turns out the bug was caused by the fact that [...]
Archives for April 2010
PyGi version 0.5, the ‘Watch out, theres a Volcano!’ release
(Special note for this version of the release statement on this blog — All the features Zhaan needed made it into the release, hence Zhaan is 100% compatible with PyGi 0.5) It is my pleasure to bring to the world the first release of PyGi – the Python GObject Introspection bindings – version 0.5. We [...]
PyGi Hackfest Day 4 – A ‘call back’ to the past
This morning on Day 4 of the Gnome/Python hackfest we had several major milestones. Among them includes The PyGi test suite runs with only two out of 200 failures under Python 3 Callback support (including scoping and primitive argument/error support) landed in PyGi master Working vfunc support, to be pushed soon Working nullable argument support, [...]
Gnome/Python Hackfest 2010 – Day 2, or: How to actually coordinate packages.
So it’s day two of the PyGI hackfest. You can find some good coverage of Day 1 at Colin Walter’s Blog and John (J5) Palmieri’s Blog. The first few hours of day two include: Made the decision that PyGI will depend on the GObject-Introspection 0.6.10 (to be released). This is because PyGI needs some new [...]
On Mobile Linux Operating Systems
If you had asked me about the state of mobile platforms based on open ecosystems two years ago you would have gotten a very fragmented answer. There were the beginnings of this Android thing, an OpenMoko project, a Linux Mobile project, rumbles about maybe a Palm/Motorola Linux OS, Maemo, this Moblin platform thing, a Xandros OS on [...]
Zhaan works with Sonos!
I finally brought my development N900 to the office to see if the Zhaan would play nice with Sonos. My initial efforts were thwarted and alas Sonos did not appear as either a source or a renderer. A quick glance at gupnp-universal-cp knocked me over the head with why — Sonos uses nested devices; something [...]
GUPnP Changes released
The changes that were needed to make PyGI (and hence Zhaan et. al) happy were pulled into the gupnp, gupnp-av master branches these past couple of days and this morning Zeeshan made a release (13.3) containing these changes. You can find Zeeshan’s announcement here. A huge thanks goes to Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) and Ross Burton [...]
Zhaan works on the N900!
It has been a long time coming but finally I’ve gotten Zhaan to work on the Nokia N900, a Maemo 5 device! Today Anderson and Willer at PyMaemo handed me a whole bunch of armel package dependencies for Zhaan. I combined them with some secret sauce (i.e. some extra projects, including updated GUPnP and GUPnPAV [...]
GUPnP + PyGi Packaged for ARMEL — Maemo Extras here we come!
Just a quick update that I just heard word from the PyMaemo guys (Willer & Anderson Lizardo) that they managed to overcome the major obstacles in packaging the dependencies for Zhaan. I am going to work on these packages and make a new package for Zhaan and push everything to Maemo extras-devel within the next [...]
Installing Zhaan
I have had several people contact me lately asking if they can run Zhaan. Unfortunatly there is a fairly significant amount of setup required to get Zhaan to run properly. This includes some code for gupnp, gupnp-av and pygi which is not yet upstream. I believe the gupnp and gupnp-av stuff is actually being merged [...]
