Holger Freyther-6 wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 10:39:41 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> [hiya sean, moving this to webkit-dev as other people may benefit from >> it, hope you don't mind] > > sorry, I don't understand at all... copying stuff over in the middle of > thread > is not helping anyone. Subject and content just confuse me... > > z. > >
sorry, holger. it's not _that_ much "in the middle of the thread". i apologised already in advance. the background context is: sean and leon are both endeavouring to compile and utilise the glib / gdom bindings to webkit. leon is doing a free software browser project; sean would like to use pywebkitgtk with the python bindings on top of the glib / gdom bindings. they are both encountering compile errors and are also helping out by covering areas of code in the glib / gdom bindings which were not used or tested in the initial development, around august 2008. leon is unfamiliar with glib / gobject concepts and is making some of the classic "uninitialised variables as input to functions" mistakes, which are very easy to do if you're unfamiliar with glib / gobject. i would consider that to be relevant for archival purposes for anyone else who is mad enough or has a very good reason to use the glib / gobject bindings, direct (such as for embedded systems). in an embedded systems project that i am helping with, the use of the glib / gobject bindings has proven to be an absolute god-send. without the glib / gobject bindings the project could not proceed _at all_ because the only other options are: * direct c++ access of WebCore objects * javascript * installation of objective-C environment - direct c++ access was ruled out as too complex - javascript was ruled out as too slow - installation of objective-C was not even _remotely_ considered but would be far too onerous an addition for a tiny embedded system. l. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-webkit--16401-tp23938740p23939841.html Sent from the Webkit mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
