On Sun, 2016-05-22 at 14:50 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > I had seen that. That is what gave me a clue about what it does, > and why it might be something that may find broader use, ala GTK, > besides the number of optional dependencies in the book. Have you > seen any evidence it's finding wide support in the development > community? (I don't tend to get around much in those circles. I > let the book blaze the trail. ;-) ) > > Any benefit to non-developers?
Yes - without it, applications written with certain frameworks won't work. Essentially, GIR is used to generate language-bindings for glib-based libraries, and is used by anyone using those libraries in languages other than C. Compiled languages (C++, Java, etc) don't usually use the GIR metadata directly - they use packages like gtkmm which are generated from the GIR. But dynamic languages (Python, Javascript, Perl) typically use GIR to generate library bindings at runtime... so if you don't have it, they won't work. Mostly it's a Gnome thing, but other parts of the glib ecosystem may also use it. Simon.
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