Re: Plans for 2.8 - GNOME Managed Language Services?

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp martianrock com>]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:55, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> My suggestion if we want to do something in 2.8 and we can't get people
> behind "open source Java subset" is:
>  - make full introspection data on the GTK+ API more formally part of 
>    GTK+, so language bindings aren't maintaining this themselves

This would be so amazingly helpful not just for language bindings but
for IDE's as well.  Imagine the ability to derive from a GObject,
overriding vtable methods without having to write a single line of
boilerplate code and then mark methods for exporting to a language
binding.

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J5