Re: [Vala] Support for custom attribute introspection/reflection?

[Maciej Marcin Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com>]

On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:36 +0100, Ricardo Gladwell wrote:
> Hi Maciej
>
> On 5 May 2011 09:09, Maciej Marcin Piechotka <uzytkownik2-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w public gmane org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 08:29 +0100, Ricardo Gladwell wrote:
> > > > Excerpts from Ricardo Gladwell's message of 2011-05-04 16:42:55 -0400:
> > > Given this, it would seem unlikely GObject-Introspection will support
> > > executables or namespaces, both of which would be needed for a full
> > > introspection API for Vala.
> >
> > 1. It does supports namespaces:
> > % grep Gee /usr/share/gir-1.0/Gee-1.0.gir
> > <namespace name="Gee" version="1.0" c:prefix="Gee">
> > ...
> >                                        <type name="Gee.Collection" c:type="GeeCollection*">
> > ...
> > % grep Peas /usr/share/gir-1.0/Peas-1.0.gir
> >  <namespace name="Peas
>
> I'm confused, according to this bug report GIR support for namespaces
> isn't implemented yet and may never be:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576327
>
> I also note that the valac only generates GIR information for the
> default namespace in a shared library. Is this going to change in
> future and can we expect full GIR metadata for all namespaces in a
> library?

You mean nested namespaces - not namespaces itself.

Regards

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