On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Michael Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 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. > I'd like to append to this suggestion a field for the default value of a parameter, perhaps stored as a ConstantInfo in the typelib. ConstantInfo seems to only support numeric values now, but it might be good to make the value a GValue, so that we can have e.g. string constants too. > > Thanks for picking up this project and doing a great job, > Michael > > >
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