Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications
Andreas Rottmann <[email protected]>
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Murray Cumming <[email protected]> writes: >> AFAIK, at least pygtk and guile-gobject use those files. James, how do >> you feel about maintaining these cooperativly? In the near future >> (with some luck in the next two weeks) the current guile-gobject >> "monolith" project will be split up into several pieces, managed in >> different Arch[0] packages. I think it would be a good idea to have a >> seperate "defs" package, containing only the .defs files for all >> (well, all that we already have .defs files for) GNOME APIs. There >> will be branches for each released GNOME version (starting with 2.6). > > If we do this, let's have the defs in GNOME's cvs. I guess we could have > a gnome-defs module, with sub-directories for each GNOME module, such as > gtk+, atk, libgnomeui, etc. > OK. No problem with that, but I still want to offer an Arch gateway, since CVS, erm... sucks. [the .defs] > gtkmm uses them. For the methods, we use the output of > pygtk/codegen/h2defs.py almost unchanged. The other stuff needs to be > generated with different utilities, so we keep them separate. > /me increments def-user-count :). It's so long now that I hacked on gtkmm'ish stuff, that I forgot wether this involved .debs. > Sharing of .defs should be a reasonable aim for the GNOME 2.8 cycle. > I heard there is a specification of the file format somewhere, but I havent found it yet. Anybody having details? Andy -- Andreas Rottmann | Rotty@ICQ | 118634484@ICQ | [email protected] http://yi.org/rotty | GnuPG Key: http://yi.org/rotty/gpg.asc Fingerprint | DFB4 4EB4 78A4 5EEE 6219 F228 F92F CFC5 01FD 5B62 Python is executable pseudocode, Perl is executable line-noise. _______________________________________________ language-bindings mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/language-bindings