Re: allow for additional root types

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi Matthias,

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 21:07 +0100, Stefan Kost wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > yes! another mail ;)
> >
> > The object hierarchy currently only has G_OBJECT and G_INTERFACE for the root 
> > types (see gtkdoc-scangobj:768).
> > This is usually sufficient, but bad, when a library has another root type.
> > E.g. GSteamer introduces GST_MINI_OBJECT - a lightweight G_OBJECT alike type.
> >
> > It would be cool to allow something like 
> > --base-types="G_OBJECT,G_INTERFACE,GST_MINI_OBJECT" as part of SCANGOBJ_OPTIONS 
> > (in Makefile.am) to override the defaults.
> >
> > If it sounds good, I post a patch.
>
>
> It might be good enough to just use all the fundamental types listed in
> the types file as tree roots, but an explicit commandline option won't
> hurt either.
>
> Matthias

wonderful idea! patch is in:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323581

Stefan