Re: [gnome-db] Re: GNOME_DB - perl volunteer at hand

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 17:41, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > * generating .defs file for the API to make bindings for
> > * generating bindings for many languages using those .defs files.
> > 
> > So, this is, as you can see, not a 100%-perl-related stuff, since the
> > .defs files have a somewhat similar syntax than the one in lisp. But, if
> > you do the .defs file, you'll make the work for several bindings at once
> > (perl, guile, python, etc).
> 
> The necessary .defs files already exist in libglademm, in the gnomemm
> module. They are split up into methods, signals/properties, enums, and
> vfuncs, because each is generated in a different way. If you need to
> regenerate them then just ask on the #c++ channel.
> 
oh, yes, sorry, I forgot about those :-( So, Rafiq, you've got a lot of
the work already done :-)

> Isn't there a perl-gtk project for gtk2? And some perl bonobo binding
> for GNOME2? If these exists then you should be able to reuse their tools
> to generate wrapper code.
> 
yes, but AFAIK, they're using the XS perl interface (not sure about this
though). I am more in favor of the auto-generation way, if that's at all
possible. If it's not, then yes, Rafiq should have a look at the tools
created in the perl-gtk project.

cheers
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