Re: [Vala] Roadmap to Vala 1.0

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:51 -0700, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 09:57 -0700, Michael Lawrence wrote:
>         > So would Vala then make use of GIR for GObject-based libraries and
>         > VAPI for the others? It would be nice if everything (i.e. cairo,
>         > libxml2, ...) could be expressed in GIR. Perhaps all that is necessary
>         > is a means for specifying the copy and free functions for ordinary
>         > structures.
>         
>         
>         GIR is an extensible format, so it should be possible to express all
>         bindings in that format. However, as GIR is an XML format, it's not that
>         comfortable for handwritten bindings. We don't intend to deprecate VAPI
>         bindings.
>
> True. It would be great if Vala could convert VAPI to GIR. That way,
> one can write a binding in a convenient form and then convert it and
> feed it to binding generators for other languages. 

Sure, that will certainly be possible.

Jürg