Re: .defs Issues From Java-Gnome

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Tim Janik wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Ariel Rios wrote:
> 
> > > If it looks like we can get the new-style .defs to get spit out reliably
> > > for 1.2.8, I'll probably start working on a parser for that form sooner
> > > rather than later, but, if not, I'll probably sit tight with the old .defs
> > > until there's a stable 2.0 release.
> > I have written a translator for old style defs.
> > Look for it in guile-gtk/toolkit/translate/
> > 
> > It does a good job for functions but I have not finish checkin enums.
> > Equally to James, I pack defs file in the guile-gtk distro
> > for generating defs file at run time is not reliable enouh.
> 
> can you tell me what is _not_ reliable about introspection at
> runtime?

By run time, he probably means build time.  For the information that is
available at run time (signals, params, etc), gtk is fine.

James.