Re: Pango perl bindings

["Chia-liang Kao" <clkao clkao org>]

On 27/03/2008, Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> wrote:
> Saying "use Gtk2;" will still need to pull in the pango stuff -- this
> can be accomplished by making Gtk2 depend on the new pango module.

that sounds like the right way to do it.

>  Also, Gtk2 currently makes the pango stuff available under the namespace
>  Gtk2::Pango, and that will have to continue to be the case.
>  Unfortunately, Gtk2 also provides a Gtk2/Pango.pm file for some
>  constants.  So the new pango module can't just use the Gtk2::Pango
>  namespace -- "use Gtk2::Pango;" still has to pull in Gtk2's
>  Gtk2/Pango.pm.  So I think the new pango module should just use the
>  namespace "Pango".  Gtk2 would then need to map Pango::* to
>  Gtk2::Pango::*.  How could this be done?

This is rather trivial, something like this would do:

require Pango;
no strict 'refs';
*{"Gtk2::Pango::".$_} = *{"Pango".$_}
for keys %Pango::

Cheers,
CLK