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On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 10:34 +0100, Erik Botö wrote:
> I'm looking at building a newer version of pygobject then what's
> currently in Poky, and from what I find it seems the new recommended
> way is to use gobject-introspection and the gi.repository module.
>
> I saw that gobject-introspection was available in recipes-gnome/gnome/
> before but is now removed. So I'm curious about the reasoning for
> removing it? Was there any particular reason?

You can't cross compile gobject-introspection so the recipe didn't work.
There is a long standing bug open in the gnome bugzilla about this.

Cheers,

Richard