Re: [gtk-list] Re: A description format for Gtk features

[Marius Vollmer <mvo zagadka ping de>]

Maurizio Vitale <Maurizio.Vitale@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> writes:
> 
> Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm still busy on the general Gtk high-level language binding issues
> > 
> >     http://www-nt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/m_mvo/types.html
> > 
> > and would like to design a file format with which the exported
> > features of Gtk can be described in great detail.
> 
> IDL: can generate stubs in different language (one implementation, ILU
> from xerox PARC does C, C++, Java, Common Lisp with a somewhat less
> supported/debugged Guile stubber).
> IDL compilers are freely available, don't have to design/document your 
> own and you get a big chunk of CORBA interoperatibility for free.

Yup, will have a lookt.  The Gnomes will be using something like that
anyway.