Re: [Vala] dova and glib

[Rob Taylor <rob taylor codethink co uk>]

On 02/02/11 17:46, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 08:52 +0000, Rob Taylor wrote:
> > How about, in dova mode, you automatically create dova objects wrapping
> > the gobjects? Could be done explicitly (per vapi?) to make it obvious.
>
> While this would theoretically work to some extent for Vala
> applications, it would break for Vala libraries, at least when you use
> GObject types in your API. It would also complicate things a lot as not
> even the basic types such as strings have the same representation in the
> two profiles - strings are ref-counted in Dova.
>
> I think it makes more sense to keep the profiles separate from
> language/compiler point of view and just make it easy to create Dova
> bindings for GObject libraries based on gobject-introspection.

I think that was roughly what I meant to suggest :)

Rob

> Jürg


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