Re: [Vala] Support for custom attribute introspection/reflection?

[Jonathan Ryan <jryan curious-os com>]

Excerpts from Ricardo Gladwell's message of 2011-05-05 03:29:11 -0400:
> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 17:03 -0400, Jonathan Ryan wrote:
>
> Isn't GObject-Introspection's focus narrower than providing metadata?
> Reading around the subject, it seems it's to provide metadata for public
> API/shared libraries to enable auto-generated bindings.

You are right. Sorry if I was being misleading.
 
> Given this, it would seem unlikely GObject-Introspection will support
> executables or namespaces, both of which would be needed for a full
> introspection API for Vala.

As of right now; I think it's the closest thing we have to
introspection.

I would hope that it will extend (or some subproject)
would extend into providing not only public API metadata
but for "on-the-fly" metadata for executables.
-- 
Jonathan Ryan