Re: Can't call soup_cookie_parse() through GIR

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On 03.12.2011 15:00, Emmanuel Rodriguez wrote:
> > Since it's a function, try
> >
> >   HTTP::Soup::Cookie::parse($value, undef);
> >   HTTP::Soup::Cookie::parse($value, HTTP::Soup::URI->new('/'));
> doh! I was so much use to all the functions like Glib::Timeout->add()
> and Glit::Idle->add() that I assumed that it had to be called with a
> package name.

Yeah, it's somewhat of a design departure from the way we usually 
wrapped non-method functions in the past.  There was a long and heated 
discussion on the list about this a few years ago.  I can see reasons 
for either way of mapping these kinds of functions (with '->', i.e. 
class-static methods, or with '::', i.e. namespaced functions), but for 
G:O:I it felt naturally to use namespaced functions.

This is not set it stone yet, though.  So if anyone sees good reasons to 
prefer the '->' route, now is the time to present them.