Re: mmification of gspell

[Pavlo Solntsev <p sun fun gmail com>]

Check this project https://gitlab.com/mnauw/cppgir 

Worth checking upfront.

On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 18:19 +0200, Emmanuel Gil Peyrot wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 04:53:21PM +0200, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> > On 2020-04-15 01:51, Emmanuel Gil Peyrot wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > In Inkscape[1] I’ve been trying to replace[2] both GtkSpell and
> > > aspell
> > > with gspell[3], but I couldn’t find any gspellmm library.
> > >
> > > I’ve been looking through your mm libraries to see how to
> > > generate it,
> > > but it seems you write almost all of the code, instead of
> > > generating it
> > > from gobject-introspection like in other languages, is there any
> > > reason
> > > for that?
> > I don't know for sure, but I think gobject-introspection did not
> > exist when
> > glibmm and friends were first created. Then no one has taken the
> > time to
> > learn gobject-introspection and to convert everything. I think
> > there once
> > was an attempt to generate glibmm from gobject-introspection, but
> > it was not
> > finished.
>
> Thanks, do you have a link to this unfinished attempt?  It might make
> future maintainance much less costly than doing everything manually,
> especially with the changing APIs surrounding GTK 4.
>
> > > I’d be interested in creating such a library if no one else
> > > already has
> > > something, do you have any pointer for where to start from?  The
> > > API
> > > surface is small enough I could do it from scratch, but it would
> > > most
> > > likely integrate better taking your advices. :)
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > [1] https://inkscape.org/
> > > [2] https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/1756
> > > [3] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gspell
> > There are some instructions in the gtkmm tutorial, appendix G: 
> > https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/stable/chapter-wrapping-c-libraries.html.en
> > .
> > It's not completely up-to-date. It assumes that you will build with
> > Autotools. I suppose you prefer Meson.
>
> Of course I do. ^^
>
> > mm-common contains the skeletonmm directory with files you can
> > start with.
> > The skeletonmm project contains files for building with Meson. If
> > you decide
> > to use it, I recommend that you clone mm-common from the git repo
> > with the
> > latest commits.
>
> Thanks, I’ll have a look at this method. :)
>
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