On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Johan Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This mail is long overdue, but I finally got my act together and started to > prepare for an initial release. > [snip] > > == GIR XML Format == > > The core of the GObject-introspection is an XML format which is called GIR > ( > GObject Introspection Repository) which contains the API introspection > metadata for a library or interface entity. > > GIR currently contains three different XML namespaces: > - core > contains features available in popular programming languages, > classes, methods, functions, interfaces, properties, strings, > enums etc. > - c > contains features specific to the C language: > identifiers, symbol names, C types > - glib > contains features specific to GLib/GObject: > signal, GType, flags, paramspec, > > The separation of different data in different namespaces allow you > to reuse it allows you to arbitrarily extend the metadata available > in different languages. > I've noticed that the Typelib is missing an attribute for the API version, that is, something similar to the "since" in gtk-doc. My guess is the GIR format is missing that, as well. I think it would be useful to track the version at which each symbol was introduced, so that language bindings, for example, can build against multiple versions of a library. Also, an indication of whether a function has variadic arguments would be useful. I can't find that in the typelib, as far as I've looked. Thanks for picking up this project and doing a great job, Michael
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