[Bug 1074028] Re: Port all pyexiv2 apps to GExiv2

[Robert Bruce Park]

No, the introspection code has been carefully constructed to work
excellently with both python 2 and python 3. The static bindings only
support python 2, so sticking with the static bindings is holding you
back. Porting to introspection doesn't force you to also port to python
3 immediately, what it does is *allows* you to port to Python 3 at your
leisure.

The benefit to your users is that your application will continue to
exist. Python 2 and GTK 2 are going away. Sure, it might be years before
they're truly gone, but it will happen eventually. Imagine for a moment
if your application only ran with Python 1 and GTK 1. Nobody would even
be able to run it because nobody packages those old versions anymore.
They're unsupported, unmaintained, and if you found a bug in the APIs,
it would simply never get fixed. Python 2 and GTK 2 are slowly moving in
that direction and if you don't port away from them, users will
eventually lose the ability to run your program as distros stop shipping
those versions.

I am not familiar with gphoto2 specifically, but yes, the introspection
bindings are well maintained and if you find bugs in them, you can
reasonably expect to report those and get them fixed. So yes, you'll be
able to get away from the 'nightmare' of unmaintained, buggy bindings.

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