[gnome-db] Fwd: API Changes on Vala Extensions

[Daniel Espinosa <esodan gmail com>]

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From: Daniel Espinosa <esodan gmail com>
Date: 2012/7/4
Subject: Re: [gnome-db] API Changes on Vala Extensions
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2012/7/4 Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>

On 3 July 2012 18:06, Daniel Espinosa <esodan gmail com> wrote:

Some weeks away I've freeze Vala Extensions for new features. I've tried to get Unit Tests working and  with a few time left, I've tried to use them in Python, but found a serious problems with Vala's Gee: it can't be used as public API in non Vala applications like on GObject Introspection.

After considering that I'm planning to do the following:

a) Move away from Gee for some properties in Vala Extensions API
b) Re-implement the code to use GLib structures
c) Rename name space from GdaData (gda_data in C) to some thing else like GdaDbo, Gdao, (suggestions?)

I understand a) and b), but I don't see why you need to change the namespace as I assume this means people using the extension would then need to heavily modify their code.

One of the reason to create Vala Extensions, is because I would like to use GDA on Python ala Django, by using objects to easily use tables and rows, but because Gee are unable to use GObject Introspection this is impossible now. May I can hold namespace, but API must change, I've almost finished the porting to GLib and now I'm on MAKE CHECK to work properly. Because 5.2 is not released jet may be is time to make API changes on unstable 5.1.

But I need to know your comments in order to proceed and don't stop any 5.2 release.

I believe this is for version 5.4, you can create a branch for that topic and we'll merge it after 5.2 is out. As for the 5.2 version, I still need to correct a problem I found in the GdaMetaStore update mechanism (I hope to correct the bug and make it faster at the same time).

As I'm on holidays soon, I hope I get some more time to work on this.

Exists a bug report to port GDA to Vala's m4 macros, now that they deprecate its bindings and prioritize GDA's autogenerated ones. May I can try to fix that, but requires some time, is this possible before 5.2 release?

I believe 5.2 won't be out for at least another month now, so I'd say you have some time to correct this bug.

Thanks I'll try to fix ASAP.

Daniel.

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