Re: libart_lgpl + glib: possible?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 17:03, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
>   There is a problem with libart as it is.  It is not language-binding
> friendly, since none of its types are GType registered.
> 
>   In gnome-python we have come accross this problem more than once. 
> First with the gnomeprint bindings, now also users complain that they
> cannot use gnome.canvas.BPath, because the 'bpath' property is of type
> pointer.
> 
>   We desperately need to add a glib dependency to libart_lgpl.  Will
> that be a problem?  Or is it nothing but another political war?

It's probably kind of pointless to fool with this, since the eventual
plan is to replace libart_lgpl with Cairo

Of course then you have the same issue with Cairo ;-) but GDK will
probably use Cairo and so GType bindings could be included in GDK.

Havoc