Re: GObject introspection for cairo

[Nicola Fontana <ntd entidi it>]

Il Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:28:19 +0000 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> scrisse:

> Cairo is not a GObject library, so introspection is fairly useless.

Hi Emmanuele,

the cairo source tree includes cairo-gobject [1] that already wraps
enums and structs in GObject style. I just browsed the code and added
the missing types to the gir file.

> for Cairo, you should always prefer native bindings — like pycairo, or
> the cairo GJS module.

I'm using LGI [2] which provides automatic bindings based on GObject
introspection. This gives me the ability to access all the libraries I
need (cairo is only one of them) through the same interface.

One of my API needs the cairo_surface_type_t enum, so adding a new
dependency only for that is not an option. If the patches are rejected
I'll wrap the enum on my side instead (or drop that particular feature).

> if you have patches, please attach them on Bugzilla.

Sorry, my bad. I had really hard time trying to figure out how to submit
bugs to gobject-introspection. I just discovered (10 mins ago) I need to
select GLib as product first.

Ciao.
-- 
Nicola

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/tree/util/cairo-gobject
[2] https://github.com/pavouk/lgi