Re: [Tracker] Introspection Support

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 09:22 +0000, ivan frade nokia com wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Yes, definitely the introspection will help a lot in the integration in the desktop. With it, you can 
> write plugins using tracker in applications using libpeas in any language you want :) well, at least in 
> python.
>
>  It is mostly modifications in the autotools machinery, so merging the commits in 0.10 shouldn't be a 
> problem. But all this introspection business requires the very very latest gobject-introspection and vala 
> (at least), that pulls more dependencies in... So far i can only make it work under jhbuild. It seems a 
> very aggresive upgrade for distributions.

In the introspection branch configure says

GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_CHECK([0.6.5])

Which is actually an older g-i version. But I do see your point with the
high valc dependency. To stop people needing a very new valac how about
shipping the gir's in the tarball and just use g-i to do the gir ->
typelib compilation at build time.

Is this a viable option?

John