question: why does pygobject-stubs depend on pygobject>=3.55.0

[jimustafa]

Is this because of the gi.repository imports in the stub files? Is appears that pygobject>=3.55.0 has not been released to PyPI.

[lovetox]

The released version the stubs do not depend on 3.55, but git master does, because we target the unreleased development version of pygobject.

Once pygobject will release their stable 3.56 release, we will make a release of the stubs.

[jimustafa]

Ah, I think I understand. Is it not sufficient to have pygobject as a dev dependency? It may be for the uv workflow.

[lovetox]

only because you put something in a dependency group named "dev", uv does not load a development version of this lib.

if you want to have a development version you need to point uv to git

pygobject@git+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pygobject.git

[bryanforbes]

With pygobject releasing 3.56 a few weeks ago, are there plans for a new release of the stubs?

[jimustafa]

Yes, I understand.

Based on the current pyproject.toml

pygobject-stubs/pyproject.toml

Lines 23 to 26 in 8c88d33

	dependencies = [
	"PyGObject>=3.55.0",
	"typing_extensions",
	]

it seems that pygobject-stubs depends on pygobject

For development, pygobject is already given as a dev dependency in [dependency-groups]

pygobject-stubs/pyproject.toml

Lines 32 to 39 in 8c88d33

	[dependency-groups]
	dev = [
	"PyGObject@git+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pygobject.git",
	"codespell>=2.4.1",
	"isort>=6.0.1",
	"ruff>=0.12.7",
	"pre-commit",
	]

Apologies if I am being dense, but I would think that pygobject should not be in dependencies and the dev dependency as it is already in pyproject.toml is sufficient.

[lovetox]

Some modules like Gio use functionality that is only available with pygobject 3.55.
This means your type checker will tell you that something is wrong, and if you fix it as the type checker says, and you have a older pygobject version installed, you will have a runtime error when starting your application.

What is you problem with pygobject being a dependency?

[jimustafa]

No problem. Just wanted to check my understanding. Thanks for your patience in explaining.