Re: mmification of gspell

Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:19:30 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.gtkmm
Message-ID	<20200415161930.a5z4mpgnpngb5n5l@luna>
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 04:53:21PM +0200, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> On 2020-04-15 01:51, Emmanuel Gil Peyrot wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In Inkscape[1] I’ve been trying to replace[2] both GtkSpell and aspell
> > with gspell[3], but I couldn’t find any gspellmm library.
> > 
> > I’ve been looking through your mm libraries to see how to generate it,
> > but it seems you write almost all of the code, instead of generating it
> > from gobject-introspection like in other languages, is there any reason
> > for that?
> I don't know for sure, but I think gobject-introspection did not exist when
> glibmm and friends were first created. Then no one has taken the time to
> learn gobject-introspection and to convert everything. I think there once
> was an attempt to generate glibmm from gobject-introspection, but it was not
> finished.

Thanks, do you have a link to this unfinished attempt?  It might make
future maintainance much less costly than doing everything manually,
especially with the changing APIs surrounding GTK 4.

> > I’d be interested in creating such a library if no one else already has
> > something, do you have any pointer for where to start from?  The API
> > surface is small enough I could do it from scratch, but it would most
> > likely integrate better taking your advices. :)
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > [1] https://inkscape.org/
> > [2] https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/1756
> > [3] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gspell
> > 
> > 
> There are some instructions in the gtkmm tutorial, appendix G: https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/stable/chapter-wrapping-c-libraries.html.en.
> It's not completely up-to-date. It assumes that you will build with
> Autotools. I suppose you prefer Meson.

Of course I do. ^^

> 
> mm-common contains the skeletonmm directory with files you can start with.
> The skeletonmm project contains files for building with Meson. If you decide
> to use it, I recommend that you clone mm-common from the git repo with the
> latest commits.

Thanks, I’ll have a look at this method. :)

-- 
Emmanuel Gil Peyrot

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