Re: Language bindings on developer.gnome.org

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 20:51, Curtis C. Hovey wrote:
> I see that the language binding section at developer.gnome.org is hidden
> in /arch/lang/index.html, and that it points to a very out-dated page on
> another site.  I'd like to help fix this.

Yes, I removed it because we already have a very up-to-date page here:
http://www.gtk.org/bindings.html
 
The d.g.o page also attempted to have details of exactly what GNOME lib is 
wrapped by what binding, but that was clearly impossible to maintain.

> Is the developer Web site named web-devel-2 in CVS?
> If so I'll need to make a new main.in and tree.in.

Please don't.

> As I just investigated this last month, I feel it would have been more
> helpful to have two tables GNOME2 for current and active bindings, and a
> Historical GNOME for 1.0 and less.

If you find any old language bindings that are not on the current
www.gtk.org page, then feel free to list them somewhere (maybe in
www.gtk.org, and linked from the bottom of that page). 

> I was trying to decide the best language for the programming I was going
> to do, and It would have been helpful if the table indicated what
> libraries the binding included (beyond libglade)--gnome-vfs, bonobo,
> GConf, etc.

Are you promising to keep this table up-to-date for 30 language
bindings, whose maintainers do not volunteer information? I don't
believe it can be done, and it's already been tried.

>   Either the table needs to accommodate these GNOME libs, or
> GNOME needs to be defined as a set of required lib bindings. 
> 
> I'm going to make a draft of the current and historical gnome language
> bindings.  I'll ask the maintainers (I know some are unmaintained) to
> review my summary.  Once I've gotten feedback I'll prepare a patch for
> review and CVS commit.
> 
> In the case of unmaintained language bindings, should we include some
> information about resurrecting them if they are in cvs.gnome.org?  The
> case I'm think of is objective-gnome, which is long neglected, but could
> have satisfied my requirements and I may update it.
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Murray Cumming
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www.murrayc.com