Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications
Andreas Rottmann <[email protected]>
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Xavier Ordoquy <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:01, Owen Taylor wrote: >> If the .defs files are supposed to describe the GTK+ (etc.) interfaces, >> it really seems strange for me to have them maintained independently >> of GTK+. > > That's probably because of historical reasons. However, there may also > be some specific things among languages but those specific parts could > be handled by the language code generator > >> Why not have .defs files, and generate the binary info from them? The >> .defs files are already there, and they contain more information than >> the headers do (well, comment parsing might change that, but you could >> create comments from the .defs files :)). Just an idea... > > I would be interested to know what are the informations the .defs file > have that the header don't. Maybe a more precise deprecated field, but > out of that ? > Types of GLists, wether NULL is allowed for pointer values, default argument values, ownership of pointers, out of the top of my head. 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 Say NO to Software Patents! -- http://petition.eurolinux.org/ _______________________________________________ language-bindings mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/language-bindings