Re: GObject introspection and cairo?

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 9 May 2017 at 15:39, Stefan Salewski <mail ssalewski de> wrote:
> I am currently working again on the gobject introspection based
> bindings for Nim language (https://github.com/StefanSalewski/nim-gi).
>
> And I wonder why there is only minimal support for cairo --
> /usr/share/gir-1.0/cairo-1.0.gir is minimal.
>
> Of course cairo is not gobject based, but is that the real problem? I
> think glib is not gobject based too?

Cairo has an internal type system — image surfaces "inherit" from
generic surfaces, etc. — whereas GLib data structures do not have
inheritance.

Additionally, things like error domains mapped to exceptions are not
going to work without GError.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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