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From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: Andy Tai <atai@atai.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guile_gi-0.3.2 released
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 08:45:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yc3iRuyRE2Ybc6Iy@spikycactus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJsg1E8JyWKNHgdPsDmz0739g-R+04JvEC=t2BVazOPh15s4sA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 09:40:56PM -0800, Andy Tai wrote:
> Curious if this covers all the common GNOME APIs on GNOME 3?
> 
> Also is there plan to cover gtk 4?   Also to makg GObject appear as
> GOOPS objects?

Like Chris noted, the bindings are generated at run-time by reading a
typelib file that describes a C library. Many GNOME libraries provide
typelib files.  You might have some in a directory such as
"/usr/lib/girepository-1.0" or somesuch.

I have yet to try to use Gtk4 beyond making sure that its typelib can
be parsed.  There is some functionality that Gtk4 requires that
guile-gi can't handle yet, such as vfuncs.

The generated bindings do use GOOPS but GOOPS is bolted on top of
GObject's own class hierarchy, so it is a bit of a hybrid.

-Mike Gran



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-30 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.29786.1640838091.18144.guile-user@gnu.org>
2021-12-30  5:40 ` guile_gi-0.3.2 released Andy Tai
2021-12-30 11:56   ` Chris Vine
2021-12-30 16:45   ` Mike Gran [this message]
     [not found] <Yc0zvRh/ePBuloS9.ref@spikycactus.com>
2021-12-30  4:21 ` Mike Gran
2021-12-30 15:40   ` Matt Wette
2021-12-30 17:10     ` Mike Gran

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