Re: New GObject Introspection tutorial

2013-06-17 Thread jcupitt
On 13 June 2013 07:54, Simon Kågedal Reimer wrote: > I've written a tutorial on how to make a basic multilevel "Hello > World" using GObject Introspection: > > http://helgo.net/simon/introspection-tutorial/ Looks great, thank you for making this, Simon. How about some notes on boxed types? They

Re: New GObject Introspection tutorial

2013-06-17 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Simon McVittie < simon.mcvit...@collabora.co.uk> wrote: > On 14/06/13 23:14, Colin Walters wrote: > > Not that waf is bad exactly > > It's perhaps worth pointing out that waf is pretty awkward for > distributions with a strong commitment to "ship source code for >

Re: New GObject Introspection tutorial

2013-06-17 Thread Simon McVittie
On 14/06/13 23:14, Colin Walters wrote: > Not that waf is bad exactly It's perhaps worth pointing out that waf is pretty awkward for distributions with a strong commitment to "ship source code for everything, build everything from its actual source, and avoid duplication":

Re: New GObject Introspection tutorial

2013-06-15 Thread Simon Kågedal Reimer
Hi all, thanks for very useful feedback! Colin, my aim was to start with the simplest possible case, assuming that most readers are more familiar working with executables than libraries. But your point is good. I've been thinking now, since I've also just read some of Shaun McCance's thoughts on

Re: New GObject Introspection tutorial

2013-06-15 Thread Frederic Peters
Hi Simon, Colin, > > It's written in Mallard; the markup is in a git repository at > > https://www.gitorious.org/gobject-introspection-tutorial > > We should think about adding this kind of thing to the main > developer.gnome.org page somehow. It'd need someone who knows > how that page works to

Re: New GObject Introspection tutorial

2013-06-15 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Simon Kågedal Reimer wrote: > Hello! > > I've written a tutorial on how to make a basic multilevel "Hello > World" using GObject Introspection: > > http://helgo.net/simon/introspection-tutorial/ > Just a small nitpick, you are missing introspection comments in the

Re: New GObject Introspection tutorial

2013-06-14 Thread Colin Walters
Hi Simon, On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 08:54 +0200, Simon Kågedal Reimer wrote: > Hello! > > I've written a tutorial on how to make a basic multilevel "Hello > World" using GObject Introspection: > > http://helgo.net/simon/introspection-tutorial/ Cool. A few high level comments: Do you think it's wo