Re: gobject introspection

[Rob Taylor <rob taylor codethink co uk>]

Damon Chaplin wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 01:12 +0100, Rob Taylor wrote:
>> Michael Lawrence wrote:
> 
>>> I made some suggestions along those lines a while ago on the GtkDocFuture
>>> page: http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/GtkDocFuture. It's at the
>>> bottom of the page.
> 
> I'm not sure I like the idea of the gtk-doc comments containing extra
> tags for return values and arguments. It could get pretty messy.

Agreed.

> 
>> Yeah, hmm, my take is that the introspection data should live in the
>> code, and gtk-doc should pick these up for the docs (just like signals
>> and object hierarchy). I'll be able to tell more after hashing out my
>> prototype. One point I'm interested in from that POV: are there any
>> plans for gtk-doc to document signals/properties on interfaces? (e.g. by
>> instantiating objects pretending to implement them?)
> 
> gtk-doc documents signals/properties on interfaces already.
> 

Ah good! I had the impression it didn't ATM :)

Thanks,
Rob Taylor