Re: cairo c++ bindings

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

CCing the cairo mailing list.

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 17:08 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 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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