Re: Python GObject Introspectation Syntax

[Steve Frécinaux <code istique net>]

On 10/06/2010 09:27 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 09:21, Steve Frécinaux<code istique net>  wrote:
> > The more complicated thing will be to efficiently find "Gtk-1.0.typelib" out
> > of "gtk".
>
> Should we expect that one day there will be enough typelibs to make
> that really a challenge?

Well, I count 352 .so's in my /usr/lib. If g-i really takes off and gets 
used for python extensions as it is soo easy to do, I'd guess it would 
not be unfair to ask for efficiency with around 300 typelibs. It's 
probably still few enough so we can pack all of this in a sorted list of 
('gtk', 'Gtk-1.0.typelib')-style values and live with it.

> So if nobody comes with a good argument against, I guess we need a patch ;)
>
> > While we are at it, a very nice thing would be to allow old-style constants
> > to be handled as well, but I think it's going to be even more complicated
>
> Which issues do you anticipate?

I don't know, you told me it wasn't doable ;-) I would have expected we 
could just cycle around all the enum and flag types and define the 
old-style constants from there (but it's more work at import time and 
breaks laziness)