Re: [Vala] Auto mm(C++) binding for libraries written in Vala?

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 09:48 -0700, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>
> wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         
>         Will it be useful to make VALA capable of producing mm(C++)
>         bindings for
>         the libraries?
>
> Do you mean generating C++ bindings to libraries implemented in Vala
> (C)? I think there's a VAPI->GIR translator in the works. So perhaps a
> C++ backend to GObject Introspection would be a good place to start.
> But then the gtkmm guys are probably already thinking about this.

Yes, that's certainly the way to go. I don't know whether there is
already a plan how to generate gtkmm compatible bindings using GIR but
it's certainly something worth investigating.

Jürg

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