On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 15:13 +0200, Veli Ogla Sungutay wrote:
> I think with Inline::C the Perl wrapper can be functional within a day.

no, don't.

use the Glib and perl-Gtk2 XS approach to write bindings for
GObject-based libraries (like Mx).

you can look at how Clutter (and its integration libraries) are wrapped
by Perl modules:

  http://git.clutter-project.org/?r=bindings/clutter-perl

ciao,
 Emmanuele.


> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Elliot Smith
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 09:28 +0100, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks for those links Elliot.
> > >
> > > When I looked in the git repo you included, I noticed that a lot of the
> > logic in the app is driving through Javascript.
> > > Does that mean that there is a Javascript interpreter embedded in Moblin
> > somewhere or that this is going to be used inside some kind of web runtime
> > app?
> >
> > The JavaScript versions are for information only: there's no JavaScript
> > interpreter in Moblin, but some of the libraries in Moblin (like Mx and
> > Clutter) have JavaScript bindings. Not for use in web apps, but for
> > running client applications via a JavaScript interpreter (like Gjs). The
> > code in the repo was mainly used to generate screenshots for tutorials
> > etc..
> >
> > >
> > > I can see that there are perl bindings to clutter which is great - am I
> > being to impatient in asking for perl bindings to MX too?
> >
> > No one is currently working on this, but feel free to volunteer (or find
> > a volunteer). Mx does support gobject-introspection, which could
> > potentially enable bindings to be generated automatically. But, again,
> > no one is working on this at present.
> >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Jeremiah
> >
> > Elliot
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> > Elliot Smith
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