Re: g-wrap and guile-gnome/gtk

[Ariel Rios <ariel at arcavia dot com>]

On 12 Nov 2000, Rob Browning wrote:

> Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> 
> 
> > Build-guile-gtk is still a one-off hack and needs to be redone
> > completely to make it reasonably clean.  This includes the syntax of
> > the defs files themselves, but hopefully we can clean that up in a
> > backward compatible way because they are already defs files out there
> > that are distributed independently from guile-gtk.
There is a new spec file format that was created for general use.
The document is located somewhere in the GTK+ module. It is important
that g-wrap works with these new format. I think that in the case
of Guile-gtk / Gnome-guile we do want to keep using these format.
 
> Well, I want to make it clear that I'm not hung up on g-wrap as it is.
> If we need to change things, or even if we decide that we need to work
> on some other common effort, it sounds to me like a joint solution
> would benefit everyone.
I am especially interested in knowing how fast do libraries
binded using g-wrap is.
 
> 
> Perfect sense.  One thing we might want to decide is if it's OK that
> the API spec files are just scheme code.  G-wrap handles it that way
> right now, but that could be changed.  
We can even have some macros to deal with the defs file if necessary...

ariel