PyMaemo has now bdist_maemo support inside distutils module. I'll try to bring more updates to the PythonLauncher application too.

Now about scratchbox, it seems that this new sbox-core-1.0.9 has a problem with packaging. It was impossible to generate PyMaemo using this version. I'll do some more further investigations.

PythonLauncher is available for OS2008. It's a daemon to speedup loading time of python scripts using gtk. The original idea comes from Johan Dahlin and now we rewrote it in C. Applications must call "python" instead of "python2.5" to use the launcher. Configuration is easy too. There is a GUI to choose startup method: at boot, at first python app or disabled.

To install use this link.

A new release of PyMaemo is available. This one includes bugfixes, new packages (setuptools, pyopenssl and python-sdk) and a lot of updates. In order to clean Application Manager programs list, python packages without GUI doesn't show up in AM list anymore. It will be only installed as a dependency of other packages or via command line. To do the update you can use the ".install" files from Maemo downloads website or use apt from command line.

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PyMaemo has got a lot of downloads and votes since beginning of this month. It's great to see this project growing and getting more and more people involved. I would like to count with you and your patience during these days that repository is broken. All platforms (OS2006, 2007 and 2008) are affected by this problem and until now there is no information about fixes. As soon as repository get ready again we will upload some bugfixes to PyMaemo OS2008. Other changes will be done in install files to use only the extras repository (following the correct repository usage policy).

A new PyGTK, with glade support, is available at chinook extras repository. It was generated using libglade2-0 (2.6.2-1indt1) (2.4 provided by Maemo SDK). Just refresh application list and update python2.5-runtime package.

Other bugfixes and unstable modules, like python-launcher, will be released using the new "extras-devel" repository. This way we can test it widely before official release.

PyMaemo has now two new modules: Cython and Storm. The first one is a fork of Pyrex, to generate code mixing Python and C data types. The second is an Object Relational Mapper. Both are available for OS2007 and OS2008 (Chinook Beta).

To install Cython you have to use apt-get install python2.5-cython, because it's targeted to developers. Storm is available through Application Manager. Hope you enjoy it!

Yesterday PyMaemo was released for OS2007 (Bora) and OS2006 (Gregale). Today it's time to enjoy PyMaemo for Chinook Beta. Just add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file (only chinook target inside scratchbox):

deb http://repository.maemo.org chinook free non-free
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras chinook free non-free

After this, run:
apt-get update
apt-get install python2.5-runtime

Feedback from community is very important!

An experimental release of PyMaemo is available for SDK 4.0. To use it just include these lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list file and disable ALL repositories remaining:

http://repository.maemo.org bora free non-free
http://repository.maemo.org/extras sardine free non-free

To install use 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get install python2.5-runtime' as root inside your device.

We have just released Python-GPSbt and Python-abook, providing access to GPS and address book data. Both modules are available through Application Manager as separate packages. We will collect all user opinions about them and possibly these packages will be included as part of a new PyMaemo release.

GeoClue bindings will be provided as soon as it gets a bit more mature. In fact its possible to access its API using D-Bus calls.

Finally, thanks to Eduardo Rocha for suggestions on how to improve py-gpsbt.