Re: Thoughts on g-wrap, guile FFI and guile-gnome
Andy Wingo <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:01:36 +0100
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Hello! Your insights in reverse: On Sat 21 Feb 2009 03:52, Andreas Rottmann <[email protected]> writes: > it might make sense to provide a pure-Scheme FFI inside Guile core > (perhaps just molding the current G-Wrap runtime library into shape). > Once you have that, you can create bindings without the need for any > "binding generation" step, hence doing away (in principle) the need > for G-Wrap altogether. I completely agree, this makes sense, and we should do this at some point this year. > I wonder how the advent of gobject-introspection will influence the > future of guile-gnome. I want to switch to it. But this is like a 200 hour project, and with less deployment than our existing solution. I don't anticipate working on this in 2009. Happy hacking, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/