Re: Windows port of PyGObject Introspection/GSoC

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

Adding everyone back on Bakhtiar's response.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bakhtiar Hasmanan" <mr tiar gmail com>
To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" <marinaz redhat com>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 7:12:39 PM
Subject: Re: Windows port of PyGObject Introspection/GSoC

Sorry for the late reply,

No, I never think to put this as gsoc either, OTOH I'd rather wait for
Dieter to make the official. So you may remove it please.

Thanks

On 4/20/13, Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Are you interested in re-defining the project in any way? If not, we will
> remove it from the ideas list.
>
> Thanks,
> Marina
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" <marinaz redhat com>
> To: "Bakhtiar Hasmanan" <mr tiar gmail com>
> Cc: "Bernhard Reiter" <ockham raz or at>, "Helge Herz" <Helge Herz web de>,
> "gnome-soc-list" <gnome-soc-list gnome org>, "Matthias Clasen"
> <mclasen redhat com>, "Dieter Verfaillie" <dieterv optionexplicit be>
> Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 4:12:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Windows port of PyGObject Introspection/GSoC
>
> Hi,
>
> It's great to see an interest in work in this area and many enthusiastic
> mentors! However, the idea on https://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2013/Ideas
> needs to be made a lot more specific in order for us to be able to move it
> to the confirmed ideas section.
>
> Creating Windows builds and fixing bugs that come up is not a suitable GSoC
> project, as a GSoC project needs to have code deliverables as its primary
> goal and a specific plan for the work to be done. It's ok if this work is a
> set of bugs with a common theme that need to be fixed, but these bugs need
> to be identified ahead of time. Could someone outline a better plan for the
> project?
>
> Bakhtiar, are you a student and if so, are you interested in participating
> in GSoC with this?
>
> Thanks,
> Marina
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bakhtiar Hasmanan" <mr tiar gmail com>
> To: "Bernhard Reiter" <ockham raz or at>
> Cc: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" <marinaz redhat com>, "Helge Herz"
> <Helge Herz web de>, "gnome-soc-list" <gnome-soc-list gnome org>, "mr tiar"
> <mr tiar gmail com>, "Dieter Verfaillie" <dieterv optionexplicit be>
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 12:58:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Windows port of PyGObject Introspection/GSoC
>
> Oops I forgot to CC
>
> Hi,
>
> Basically the main exception for Windows is those GTK2's remnant of
> win32 suffixed function names which I think doesn't need to be
> different at binding level from linux version. Other than that it has
> been g-ir-scanner issue which generate corrupted gir. Also
> g-ir-generate's gdump.c, but this need clarification where upstream
> devs want to go for? MinGW or MSVC?
>
> Personally I only know MinGW and current state of gdump.c only
> "somewhat" works with mingw.org's w32api and mostly not with
> mingw-w64's which mean no 64bit.
>
> That said, me and Helge basically are in brute-force mode of making it
> "work". No proper "fixes" has been done by us. But the infos may be
> useful nonetheless.
>
> Off topic, I think devhelp need to be ported to win32 (for people with
> limited internet resource). The PyGobject Tutorial definitely not
> enough. I have ugly patch here
> http://osspack32.googlecode.com/files/devhelp_win32.patch (3.6.1) and
> have build several other gtk3 apps here too
> http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/p/pygobject-pygi-aio.html. Somehow
> those apps will refuse to work if build as single executable, it need
> exe+dll combo. It's like missing needed exported functions? Anyone
> knows?
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