Re: GObject-Introspection

[Johan Dahlin <jdahlin async com br>]

Michael Lawrence wrote:
[..]
> The VAPI format from the Vala project is a nice human-writeable format 
> that should soon be convertable to GIR (currently can be converted to GIDL).
>
> Example:
> public class Gtk.Label : Gtk.Misc {
>   public void get(out text);
>   ...
> }

Using an IDL such as VAPI has been discussed and it's likely that we'll 
sometimes move to that in the future (for Gtk+). That'd mean that large 
portions of the .c and the complete headers can be generated from this 
information.

It'll reduce duplication and the manual labor required to add new or 
maintain existing APIs considerably.

However, for g-i we're taking the path of scanning headers/sources as it 
requires less work from what we have today.

Johan