Hi,
Just sharing with all the people one of the conclusions of the last
meeting (minutes not available yet).
Some months ago Mike Gorse changed how python at-spi2 bindings are
created, so now there is a core C library called libatspi, and pyatspi2
is created based on gobject introspection.
That means that now we have a library based on C to access at-spi2
(thanks Mike). So if anyone want to create a C AT, in theory he can use
libatspi.
*But*, libatspi is not fully API compatible with CSPI. Mike proposed
that it could be possible to create a intermediate compatibility layer.
But we concluded that it doesn't worth.
That means that any existing C-SPI based app that wants to be compatible
with at-spi2, needs to be migrated to libatspi, so it is possible that
this "doesn't worth" is wrong, but for the moment this is the current plan.
In related news:
* As it is based on gobject introspection, Joseph will investigate if
it is possible to call those methods using javascript. We already call
atk methods on gnome-shell, so we are positive on it.
* Status of libatspi documentation is not enough (IMHO) to ask upload
it to http://developer.gnome.org/references. We'll try to sort it soon.
* CCed Patrick, as Dasher migration to work with at-spi2 is still
pending, we hope that this would help.
* CCed Eitan, as on his last work with Caribou, he is moving some
parts of Caribou to C
[1] http://monotonous.org/2011/04/26/caribou-week-2/
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