Re: [Vala] Advice for external libraries providing Vapis

[Steven Oliver <oliver steven gmail com>]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Marc-André Lureau <
marcandre lureau gmail com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Eric Gregory <eric yorba org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there some general advice I can give to an external library that wants
> > to provide a Vapi?  Any place I should point them, examples of best
> > practices, etc?
>
> This is what I would do if the vapi file can be generated directly
> from gobject-introspection gir file, then it's rather straightforward:
>
> Add --enable-vala and check for AC_PATH_PROG(VAPIGEN, vapigen) in
> configure.ac.
>
> Add vapi files rules in Makefile.am (perhaps in a vapi directory):
>
> if WITH_VALA
> vapidir = $(datadir)/vala/vapi
> vapi_DATA =             \
>        webkit-1.0.vapi \
>        webkit-1.0.deps
>
> webkit-1.0.vapi: $(top_builddir)/where/to/find/WebKit-1.0.gir
>        $(AM_V_GEN)$(VAPIGEN) --library webkit-1.0 $<
> endif
>
> Adjust your arguments where needed, add metadata/custum files etc..
> Hope that helps!
>
> --
> Marc-André Lureau
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I don't really think that's what he was going for. I assume the idea was
more of having a central repository of VAPIs you could easily
hit programmatically or simply through your web browser. Then, using a
custom tool similar to Ruby's gem you could so something fun like: