On Tuesday 22 of June 2010 19:14:38 Arun Raghavan wrote:
On 20 June 2010 20:12, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote:
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Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if
there aren't any.
Is anyone here vehemently against introspection.
Not vehemently, but
On K, 2010-06-23 at 09:33 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
On 23 June 2010 01:47, Mike Auty ike...@gentoo.org wrote:
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Which should not be an issue since any library that has some sort of
introspection can use this flag (and the use.desc can be changed
appropriately at that time if it does
tis 2010-06-22 klockan 15:17 +0530 skrev Arun Raghavan:
On 21 June 2010 21:23, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote:
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I'm still trying to think of a good name. I understand the concerns
about introspection being too generic and non GNOME-y, but gir is
likely to cause confusion.
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On 22/06/10 15:33, Arun Raghavan wrote:
Why not just gintrospection?
I still think introspection is easier to grok. It's unlikely that
it's going to be used in a completely different sense by other
packages in the future, so let's stick with
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:33, Mike Auty ike...@gentoo.org wrote:
Gintrospection gives more information (things starting with g are
generally gnome related, which this is), and grepping for introspection
will still turn it up. It also solves the concerns that all the people
on this thread
On 20 June 2010 20:12, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote:
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Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if
there aren't any.
Is anyone here vehemently against introspection.
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On 22 June 2010 22:03, Mike Auty ike...@gentoo.org wrote:
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I still think introspection is easier to grok. It's unlikely that
it's going to be used in a completely different sense by other
packages in the future, so let's stick with introspection please.
Gintrospection gives more
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On 22/06/10 18:11, Arun Raghavan wrote:
It is not a GNOME-only flag.
A general introspection flag may not be, but this isn't a general
introspection flag, this is specific to gobject and the suggestions try
to clarify that. People who want
On 23 June 2010 01:47, Mike Auty ike...@gentoo.org wrote:
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Which should not be an issue since any library that has some sort of
introspection can use this flag (and the use.desc can be changed
appropriately at that time if it does not use gobject-introspection).
Why have to change it in
On Monday 21 June 2010 07:44:50 Arun Raghavan wrote:
On 20 June 2010 20:12, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote:
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We already have 13 packages using this flag, with several more to
come. The current description being used in packages' metadata.xml
sucks - I'll put something
On 21 June 2010 11:43, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote:
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introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing for the
dynamic generation of bindings for various languages
why not naming the useflag gobject-introspection then ?
Mostly because it seems exceedingly verbose to
On Monday 21 June 2010 09:53:02 Arun Raghavan wrote:
On 21 June 2010 11:43, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote:
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introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing for the
dynamic generation of bindings for various languages
why not naming the useflag
On 6/21/10 8:53 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote:
On 21 June 2010 11:43, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote:
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introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing for
the dynamic generation of bindings for various languages
why not naming the useflag gobject-introspection then ?
Paweł Hajdan, Jr. posted on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:04:03 +0200 as excerpted:
On 6/21/10 8:53 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote:
On 21 June 2010 11:43, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote:
introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing for the
dynamic generation of bindings for various
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 09:07 +, Duncan wrote:
Paweł Hajdan, Jr. posted on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:04:03 +0200 as excerpted:
On 6/21/10 8:53 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote:
On 21 June 2010 11:43, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote:
introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing
Am 21.06.2010 09:04, schrieb Paweł Hajdan, Jr.:
I think that introspection is similarly too general.
What about calling the useflag GIR (or gir)? If the user does not
know what it stands for, he will hopefully look up the description to
see what it means. And in contrast to introspection the
Olivier Crête posted on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:46:58 -0400 as excerpted:
It's not the bindings... It's introspection data that describes the API.
Well, the bindings themselves are dynamic, but this is what enables them,
according to the description. Only explaining all that is a bit long to
El dom, 20-06-2010 a las 20:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan escribió:
Hi folks,
I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection.
The purpose of the flag is to enable the building of GIR for the
package using dev-libs/gobject-introspection. gobject-introspection is
going to be quite
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote:
El dom, 20-06-2010 a las 20:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan escribió:
Hi folks,
I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection.
[snip]
Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if
there aren't any.
El lun, 21-06-2010 a las 03:05 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan escribió:
I agree with having it as a new global USE-flag, but I am unsure about
enabling it by default just now, since some automagic dependency
problems appeared some time ago :-/, but I will leave this decision to
other Gnome team
On 20 June 2010 20:12, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote:
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We already have 13 packages using this flag, with several more to
come. The current description being used in packages' metadata.xml
sucks - I'll put something more descriptive in the final flag.
Here's the description
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