Re: [Vala] valac can read a typelib in place of a vapi binding

[Adam Dingle <adam yorba org>]

On 04/02/2011 07:21 AM, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> ...
> > 2. Is there a long-term plan to deprecate .vapi files in favor of type
> > libraries?  Can type libraries express everything that .vapi files can?
> GIR files (vala doesn't read typelibs, it reads the xml versions) cannot
> express everything that .vapi files can and probably never will. They
> are focused on GObject-based libraries while .vapi can also handle quite
> a few other libraries reasonably well.

Aha - now I see this was my mistake.  When I compiled with '--pkg 
PeasGtk-1.0', I thought Vala was reading

/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/PeasGtk-1.0.typelib

But actually it was reading this .gir file:

/usr/share/gir-1.0/PeasGtk-1.0.gir

> The plan is to replace our .gi files (old gobject-introspection) by .gir
> files (new gobject-introspection) as soon as possible, while still
> shipping generated .vapi files.

Good to know.

adam