Re: Return type "(allow-none)" annotations?

[Phil Clayton <phil clayton lineone net>]

On 07/03/12 03:08, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 02:48 +0000, Phil Clayton wrote:
>
> > Various questions spring to mind:
> >
> >     - Have the return type null-ok/allow-none attributes
> >       really been forgotten for so long or is there some
> >       reason behind their omission?
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626395
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660879

Thanks.  I've added some comments to the latter.


> Note there are two levels here - whether they appear in the .gir
> or that and the .typelib.  I think the Vala people (who do want
> nullable/null-ok/allow-none) have been satisfied that they're
> just in the .gir.

If they're added to .gir, hopefully they will magically appear in 
.typelib!  As I've noted in bug 660879, typelib/GIRepository support 
already exists.