Re: [java-gnome-hackers] Rewrite of Code generator using GIR

[Serkan K. <se...@ge...>]

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On 10-05-2010 10:48, Serkan Kaba wrote:
> Currently we're using defs file from pygobject which is generated by
> h2def, and manually adding new symbols along the way. We also generate
> or handcraft some defs files ourselves and add them into the tree. And
> the code generator parses them to generate user invisible class files
> and JNI code. This causes out-of-date symbol metadata since the work
> is done manually.
> 
> For a bit of time GNOME project is prividing a package called Gobject
> introspection, which basically holds interface definitions of GObject
> based libraries. They're still generated from scanning source code,
> but done by the library providers themselves and kept up-to-date.
> GNOME also provides a central GIR metadata in "gir-repository" package
> for libraries that don't provide them (eventually libraries end up
> supporting GIR)
> 
> I started rewrite of parser part of the code generator using .gir XML
> files (parsing them was easier otherwise we would need to write JNI
> code for GIRepository). The branch is at
> bzr://research.operationaldynamics.com/bzr/java-gnome/hackers/serkan/introspection/
> Please pull and investigate it because this branch is changing a core
> part of Java-Gnome
> 
> Future considerations
> * How to handle manualy fixes we do for .defs files
> * How to provide unexisting GIR files (we may use the scanner to
> generate them and get them included in "gir-repository")
> 
> Regards,
> Serkan KABA
> 
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I started the alternative implementation based on handwritten binding
around GIR and pushed it to
bzr://research.operationaldynamics.com/bzr/java-gnome/hackers/serkan/gir/ the
code is at tests/exploration/gir-java

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Sincerely,
Serkan KABA
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