Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 15:18 -0300, Johan Dahlin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We think GObject Introspection adds a lot to the GNOME platform and >> would like to >> discuss how it can be integrated. > > yey! > > absolutely agree about finally having G-I integrated in the platform. > >> * Source comment (gtk-doc) annotations we expect C authors to >> use and maintain in libraries > > it would be good to have a gtk-doc release (and people depending on it, > so that distro will finally start shipping a decent version of gtk-doc) > that understands those annotations, stripping them when needed or adding > human readable descriptions (this would also help increase the > consistency in the API references on library.gnome.org). I know that > ensonic is working on this. > >> == Option 1: Included in glib.tar.gz, included in libgobject-2.0.so == > >> == Option 2: Included in glib.tar.gz, as a separate libgirepository-1.0.so == > > I'd obviously favour either option 1) or 2), with a slight preference > for 1). being able to refactor parts of the GType system using > introspection would be a killer feature.
This sounds great to me, though I do hope we can make sure there's an obvious approach to cross-compiling it before including in glib proper. - and that includes good support for building the typelibs when cross-compiling. I recall early on we had a pretty good story here, but I'm not sure what the current state is. Thanks, Rob > ciao, > Emmanuele. > -- Rob Taylor, Codethink Ltd. - http://codethink.co.uk _______________________________________________ language-bindings mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/language-bindings
