Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications

[Andreas Rottmann <a rottmann gmx at>]

Xavier Ordoquy <xordoquy wanadoo fr> writes:

> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:01, Owen Taylor wrote:
>> If the .defs files are supposed to describe the GTK+ (etc.) interfaces,
>> it really seems strange for me to have them maintained independently
>> of GTK+.
>
> That's probably because of historical reasons. However, there may also
> be some specific things among languages but those specific parts could
> be handled by the language code generator
>
>> Why not have .defs files, and generate the binary info from them? The
>> .defs files are already there, and they contain more information than
>> the headers do (well, comment parsing might change that, but you could
>> create comments from the .defs files :)). Just an idea...
>
> I would be interested to know what are the informations the .defs file
> have that the header don't. Maybe a more precise deprecated field, but
> out of that ?
>
Types of GLists, wether NULL is allowed for pointer values, default
argument values, ownership of pointers, out of the top of my head.

Andy
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