Re: [gperl_sv_from_value] FIXME: unhandled type - 84 (GVariant fundamental for GVariant)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi Torsten;

On 2 September 2014 21:15, Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> wrote:
> On 02.09.2014 22:04, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > > [gperl_sv_from_value] FIXME: unhandled type - 84 (GVariant fundamental for
> > > GVariant)
> > >
> > > What does it mean?
> >
> > it means that perl-Glib does not support GVariant, which is true: the
> > whole API is missing, and will need binding.
>
> Yeah.  It might make sense to try to use Glib::Object::Introspection for
> that.

I doubt it: the GVariant API relies pretty strongly on variadic
arguments, and it's likely that you want to turn GVariants into
scalars wherever appropriate.

there is *some* API that we can probably bind using introspection, but
that raises a series of interesting questions as to which parts of
GLib (core and gobject) we can bind through introspection. I know that
the pygobject bindings are trying to get more and more gobject-level
API bound through introspection, and just leave the lower levels of
GLib (i.e. data structures), as well as the python <-> gtype type
system matching. it would be worth it to investigate what is the
"permeability level" of the hardcoded to introspected API ratio.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
http://www.bassi.io
[ ] ebassi [ gmail com]