Re: [java-gnome-hackers] a possible merge strategy

[Colin W. <wa...@ve...>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Andrew Cowie
<an...@op...> wrote:

> Colin is exposing every last function in GNOME as raw public API.

No, I'm not.

> Goodness. Given that so many of those functions are  deprecated,

There's a gtk-doc Deprecated: flag, which shows up in the typelib, and
JGIR generates an @Deprecated annotation.

> unnecessary, unused, superseded,

Perhaps - but there aren't that many APIs like that.

> or is just C sugar,

We don't expose things like varargs; and the introspection system
supports hiding C sugar functions.

Anyways - so you are saying you want to continue on java-gnome's path
of being a hand-crafted API for some parts of GTK+ and below,
continuing to expect that at some point many new people will appear
and write/maintain bindings with custom documentation for every
GObject library out there?  You see no role for having a correct
generated API to fill in gaps in the wide variety of libraries
java-gnome hasn't even looked at?