Re: cairo c++ bindings

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

Hi. Have you made more progress on this, or does anyone else have
opinions? I'd like to have top-quality Cairo C++ bindings to depend on
for gtkmm 2.10. Of course, I'd prefer someone else to be the maintainer.

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 07:57 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >
> > hey, in case you are interested in cairo bindings, i'm currently working
> > on
> > some.
> >
> > here's a preview
> >
> > http://downloads.paniq.org/cairo.hpp
> 
> Excellent. I encourage everyone to take a look and think about how the
> bindings should look. I don't have time now, but it's something that we
> should really have ready for gtkmm 2.10 (probably in 6-month's time). Note
> that they probably shouldn't be part of gtkmm itself.
> 
> Some very quick thoughts after a quick look:
> - It's desirable to hide the C headers from the C++ headers. Among other
> things, that means:
>   - using numbers instead of enum values for the C++ enum values, as in
> gtkmm.
>   - not deriving from the C struct unless it's really necessary.
>   - forward-declaring C struct types and using them as little as possible
> in headers. #include the definition in the .cc file.
> - Non-copyable classes should have a private, undefined, copy constructor.
> - The operator * and operator = overrides are a little odd. I'd prefer
> explicit conversion, and that's the style used by gtkmm.
> 
> 
> Murray Cumming
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