Re: GObject Introspection and GTK3 way forward

[Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com>]

On 09/05/2018 10:29 AM, Mike Gran wrote:
> Hey all-
>
> So, I've decided to make a go at finishing the GObject Introspection
> and GTK3 story for Guile.  I would very much like to have something
> running in time for Fosdem 2019.
>
> I've looked at the other two previous attempts: g-golf, and the older
> guile-gobject project.  The latter is moribund.
>
> The former is beautiful code, the sort of code that you'd hope would
> be able to solve the problem, but, I think the road to a beta release
> doing things "properly" might take a long time.
>
> But since I need something running in a couple of months, I'm going to
> port PyGObject to Guile.  PyGObject is complex and full of special
> cases, which leads me to believe that a proper Guile binding also
> would need to be so.  Though PyGObject is complex, porting PyGObject
> to Guile, however, looks comparatively straightforward.
>
> I guess I just want to apologize in advance for not picking up the
> ball on the older projects.  It is a bit rude to ignore them.  But
> monkey patching C code is where my skills lie. ;-)
>
> Feel free to contact me with questions, comments, and criticism.
>
> The (currently empty) repo is
> https://github.com/spk121/guile-gobject-introspection
>
> Regards,
> Mike

FYI, I have been able to run glib, gio, gobject, gdk2, gtk2+, pango through
the FFI helper go get scheme code that compiles.  And I've run some gtk2+
demos.  I believe I had issues with gtk3+.  The FH probably won't provide all
you what you want but it might help some (hence the name).

* the tarball repository:
     https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/nyacc/

* the git repository:
     git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/nyacc.git