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

[Ricardo Gladwell <ricardo gladwell gmail com>]

On 5 May 2011 15:15, Jonathan Ryan <jryan curious-os com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Ricardo Gladwell's message of 2011-05-05 03:29:11 -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.
>
> As of right now; I think it's the closest thing we have to
> introspection.
>
> I would hope that it will extend (or some subproject)
> would extend into providing not only public API metadata
> but for "on-the-fly" metadata for executables.

Is this the approach favoured by the Vala team?

The other option is to simply compile attributes directly into the
generated C type code.

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