[arch-dev-public] Add patch to python to save power for pygtk apps

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/1/10, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>:
> Hi all,
>
> It's quite common knowledge that pygtk/pygobject programs are bad for
> power usage. Newer versions of pygtk and pygobject contain code that
> requires API from python trunk to solve this issue. However, our python
> 2.5 doesn't have that code.
>
> http://blogs.gnome.org/johan/2008/01/04/enough-wakeups-in-python-programs/
> describes the issue, it's from the pygobject/pygtk developer that
> integrated the new code.
>
> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/python/python2.6-set_wakeup_fd4.patch?rev=1.1
> is the backport to python 2.5 done by redhat.
>
> I would like to apply the python wakeup patch, put this new python in
> testing and build the new pygobject/pygtk releases against it.
>
> Though the added python API is development code, it's an API addition
> that doesn't touch existing API, so our python will stay compatible with
> old python scripts/libraries/etc. The downside of the patch is that this
> new API could be not the final API, which requires us to update the
> patch whenever it changes. As this patch has been developed by python
> and pygtk developers together, I don't see problems here.
>
> So the question is: is it ok to apply the patch to our python package?
>

Sounds good to me. I guess laptop users will like it.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)