Re: Language bindings on developer.gnome.org

["Curtis C. Hovey" <sinzui cox net>]

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 06:57, James Henstridge wrote:
> At the moment there is really only one actively maintained list of 
> GTK/Gnome language bindings, and that is the one on www.gtk.org.  
> Because it is the only one, language binding authors have been sending 
> in updates which greatly reduces the maintenance load.

I agree.

> If you start working on a second independent LB page, it means there are 
> two possible places where LB authors might send updates.  This increases 
> the chance that authors will send their updates to one of the language 
> bindings pages and not the other.

nod.

> It seems that your main complaints about the page on www.gtk.org is that 
> (a) it doesn't contain information about support for various Gnome 
> platform libraries and (b) it isn't on developer.gnome.org.  Neither of 
> these issues really require starting a new table.  To fix (a), we just 
> need to add more columns to data used generate the GTK page.  To fix 
> (b), we could put a page on d.g.o built from the same data.
> 
> It's probably worth putting the source for the table in to the 
> language-bindings module in CVS, and then setting up the GTK and d.g.o 
> website build scripts to pull the data from there.
> 
> The information we would need about each binding are:
> 
>     * project name
>     * home page
>     * a contact email
>     * For each library, an indicator of how well the binding supports it
>       (not at all, poor, medium or good).  This would be fairly
>       subjective, but I think "percentage support" numbers would be even
>       less useful.
> 
> For any pages displaying this info, there should be a link telling 
> people where to send updates.
> 
> How does this sound?

That's a good idea.  I one source, two views.  I think only a rough
measure of binding completeness can be done, not unless GNOME can come
up with a standard measure to meet.  Are you saying that the email to
the language-bindings list/Murray when the table gets updates?  Does
Murray want to do this?  I don't want him cursing me.

I think we should discuss what really needs to be communicated. A table
may not be required since I cannot get a good measure of what makes a
GNOME app.

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