Re: Patch for GtkEntry 2.16 (incomplete)

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

muppet wrote:
> Looks like we'll have to have a go at GIcon over in Glib before these 
> can be added.  I'll have a look at that this evening, time permitting.
>
> Our policy has previously been "don't bind stuff for which there is
> already equivalent or more popular support in perl", but i think GIO may 
> bend that rule somewhat.  It's more of an abstract IO framework than a 
> replacement for file handles.  Any opinions?

I think gio bindings would be good to have.  But I resolved not to manually wrap 
a new library (which gio basically is) anymore and instead spend those tuits on 
getting the introspection stuff up and running.

I think getting usable gio bindings this way is within reach, it might even work 
already with current gobject-introspection and its gio typelib, and the stuff 
described on <http://live.gnome.org/GTK2-Perl/Introspection>. 
gobject-introspection is not yet in a state that warrants making our Glib module 
depend on it, so my idea was (and is) to write a small Perl clone of the 
girepository API for accessing the typelib.  Coupled with the code described on 
<http://live.gnome.org/GTK2-Perl/Introspection>, this should yield a usable 
prototype.