Fri Feb 22 06:37:37 PST 2019
Turning off desktop effects fixes "invisible button" and "invisible label after resize" bug.
~/src/home-svn/gi-test/trunk/ demonstrates the problem.
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Good place to get the latest alphas or betas:
https://www.python.org/downloads/source/

Good place to get the old releases:
http://legacy.python.org/download/releases/src/


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Wed Feb 28 12:36:01 PST 2018
Added 1.1 and 1.0.
Building cpython 1.[012345] as 32 bit executables, to deal with truncated pointers in early versions.
1.6 depends on C++ for linking; Mint 18.2 didn't appear to have a development version of libstdc++ installed
or in synaptic.
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Sat Feb 24 14:26:20 PST 2018
Added 1.3 and 1.2.
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Fri Feb 23 22:43:32 PST 2018
Added 1.5 and 1.4.
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Mon Jan 29 13:58:10 PST 2018
Added a few more, older releases.  1.5 had a separate library download, so I stopped at 1.6.
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Sat Jan 27 17:37:14 PST 2018
David Beazley did some related work:
https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/934590421984075776
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This one does python, cython, GTK+ and numpy.