Re: [ruby-gnome2-devel-en] Status Inquiry

[Evan M. <ma...@cs...>]

Darrin Thompson wrote:
> Did your decision to not use SWIG take into consideration the recent 
> developments there? From what I've read on the english ruby-talk list, 
> SWIG 1.3 is turning into a really excellent tool and the ruby to c code 
> generator is excellent. Perhaps you all should reconsider?
> 
> http://swig-jp.dyndns.org/ <- Japanese. I don't know what it actually 
> says. :-)

I believe one of their design decisions was to do things by hand.

If you're going to use autogeneration, GTK provides a datafile 
(gtk.defs) that describes all of the C functions in a structured form 
that is parsable into generated wrappers.  That's how PyGTK [Python] 
does it, for example (I believe that James, the guy behind PyGTK, is 
actually responsible for it).

I wrote a small parser for that file a while back but there is still a 
lot of internal work to do-- the GObject <-> Ruby object stuff probably 
needs to be done by hand.