Re: [Vala] Gtk+ bindings update

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

Right sorry that's due to the GIR.

Some things seem wrong. For example Gtk.get_default_language return should
be unowned. Why is it owned now?
I guess the same goes for all other static methods.


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 21:39 +0200, Luca Bruno wrote:
> > Certainly that kind of splitting is unfeasible. I understand there are a
> > bunch of fixes, however applications work somehow and I wouldn't like to
> > break them. Also, even if Vala is hosted at GNOME, I remind you there's
> > plenty of projects relying on Vala. Other applications are as important
> as
> > GNOME applications.
>
> Of course, but if they're not GNOME projects they probably don't really
> care about the freeze.
>
> > However, in the case of other applications, those may as well keep using
> > Vala 0.24. After all, distributions ship with multiple versions and Vala
> is
> > parallel-installable exactly for this reason.
> >
> > In reality, my main concern is about the concrete accessors bug. How much
> > stuff does that bug affect? Would it be possible to just drop in a
> > custom.vala for those until the bug gets fixed?
>
> (For those of you who don't know what he is talking about, bug #730744)
>
> Rico, correct me if I'm wrong, but the concrete accessor bug doesn't
> affect Rico's patches.
>
> Are you suggesting we just do the switch to GIR now instead of this?  It
> should be possible to just copy the old stuff from the VAPI and dump it
> in a custom.vala for now, yes.  Of course, it would end up being a
> pretty big custom.vala, and a big chunk of metadata to skip all the
> relevant symbols, but certainly possible.  If memory serves it just
> switching to the GIR version without copying over that stuff would break
> a *lot* of stuff and I don't think that's an option.  I'm okay with
> that, but I'm not sure I will have time soon enough.
>
> From the VAPI's perspective switching to GIR but overriding the concrete
> accessor stuff should be roughly equivalent to accepting Rico's patch.
> AFAIK all he did was go through the diff to the GIR version and add the
> GIDL equivalent.



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