Re: [Gegl-developer] Returning to python-gegl

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 14:30 -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
> Hi -
>
> after several months I am taking back a look at my Python bindings for GEGL,
> which make use of gobject introspection.
>
> The situation with gobject introspection is none but frustrating - maybe
> one could use it, if he could live in #gobject on irc - but there seens to be
> no documentation resources wherever.
>
> Moreover, it does not work very well,
> whenever something is not available using the auto-generated bindings,
> there is no workaround, but to make/request changes on the upstream project
> and wait for a new release.
>
> Add to that things that simply stop working
> (I just found out I can no longer instantiate a geglBuffer with the gobject
> introspection - and the solution in my package is a hack already to workaround
> the constructor failing in the past)
>
> Moreover, the latest GEGL stable release is still built with introspection off -
> so people can't make use of the Python bindings without rebuildoing
> GEGL themselves,
> as all distros ship the package without the "gir"  files.
>
> But -- I may be wrong --- people may be firmly committed to gobject
> introspection,
> and it may be the future, and it is my fault not learning it right -
> And this is the main motivation for this message:
> Doo anyone believe/think/can explain/ if gobject introspection has a
> future at all?

Actually, yes, but I admit I have no clue whatsoever :) People seem
to be very committed to it.

Without knowing much, proper doc annotations seem to be the key,
have you checked those?

Also, I think the only way to get real help is #gtk+

--Mitch

> Otherwise, I think I will rewire the python bindings using another
> method to bridge to the C library, which is more predictive and better
> supported. (I also accept suggestions for that -
> since I prefer working in Python itself, my options would be ctypes or cython)
>
>   js
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