On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 06:00:07PM +0200, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
Op vrijdag 25-09-2009 om 22:11 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Magnus Therning:Does anyone out there have a .vapi for epiphany's extension API? I'm particularly interested in the bookmark manipulation API.Afaik the idea is to have at least Seed extensions for Epiphany. Python support has been dropped, and it won't come back. I'm not sure about Vala, even though there were plans for it: http://uwstopia.nl/blog/2008/07/vala-bindings-for-epiphany-extensions But then, I think Seed extensions are designed fill exactly the same gap, so I'm not sure what the added value of Vala extensions is.
Epiphany has always supported extensions written in C. Basically Vala would offer a way of writing C extensions in a language that arguably is much nicer to work with :-) My experience with trying to translate a Python extension to Seed was that it wasn't ready for proper use yet: - Javascript doesn't include many of the handy types that is in Python, especially dictionaries (maps) and sets. Vala has Gee. - The GNOME libraries are largely written in C, and even though introspection makes Seed bindings trivial the API's are distinctly non-object orientated. Vala's .vapi files manage to offer a much improved API. In short, I've found Vala vastly more pleasant to work with for writing Epiphany extensions compared to Seed. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
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