Re: [Vala] Status of clutter bindings

[Ali Sabil <ali sabil gmail com>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Frederik <scumm_fredo gmx net> wrote:
> Spencer, Matthew wrote:
> > Hi Guys
> >
> > Not sure if this should be posted here or to the clutter lists, but I'll
> > try here first :)
> >
> > I am trying to create a clutter app using vala and am having a few
> > issues.  The biggest one seems to be with the clutter-json bindings.
> > How mature are these supposed to be, because the simplest application is
> > failing to compile, and looking at the vapi files I would have to agree.
> >
> > I would like to modify the generated vapi files to make this work,
> > however at the top is an 'autogenerated' warning, but I cannot find
> > anywhere in the vala build that will allow me to recreate these bindings
> > (there also seems to be nothing in the 1.0.8 source release of clutter).
>
> Yes, it seems that 'clutter-1.0.vapi' was accidentally included without
> the metadata information an in a very raw state without any tweaking.
>
> Ali Sabil (asabil) has started a launchpad project as a new beginning for
> Clutter bindings, this time with metadata:
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~asabil/+junk/clutter-vala-1.0/files
>
> At the same time I was assembling a patch with lots of fixes for the raw
> 'clutter-1.0.vapi' without knowing about his project:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598778
>
> What needs to be done now is to merge this patch into his project, but in
> the form of metadata. I wanted to do that but I didn't find enough time
> during the last weeks. Of course, any help is appreciated.
>
> I have attached a Vala port of a little demo program that would work with
> my patch.

I committed yesterday a replacement for the clutter bindings in Vala
based on your patch. There still may be quite some issues, But
hopefully we will iron them out over time.

Concerning clutter-json, I didn't work on it because I am not sure if
it is meant to be public (clutter-json is a statically linked copy of
glib-json).

Cheers,

Ali