On 09/05/2018 10:29 AM, Mike Gran wrote:
Hey all-
So, I've decided to make a go at finishing the GObject Introspection
and GTK3 story for Guile. I would very much like to have something
running in time for Fosdem 2019.
I've looked at the other two previous attempts: g-golf, and the older
guile-gobject project. The latter is moribund.
The former is beautiful code, the sort of code that you'd hope would
be able to solve the problem, but, I think the road to a beta release
doing things "properly" might take a long time.
But since I need something running in a couple of months, I'm going to
port PyGObject to Guile. PyGObject is complex and full of special
cases, which leads me to believe that a proper Guile binding also
would need to be so. Though PyGObject is complex, porting PyGObject
to Guile, however, looks comparatively straightforward.
I guess I just want to apologize in advance for not picking up the
ball on the older projects. It is a bit rude to ignore them. But
monkey patching C code is where my skills lie. ;-)
Feel free to contact me with questions, comments, and criticism.
The (currently empty) repo is
https://github.com/spk121/guile-gobject-introspection
Regards,
Mike
FYI, I have been able to run glib, gio, gobject, gdk2, gtk2+, pango through
the FFI helper go get scheme code that compiles. And I've run some gtk2+
demos. I believe I had issues with gtk3+. The FH probably won't provide all
you what you want but it might help some (hence the name).
* the tarball repository:
https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/nyacc/
* the git repository:
git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/nyacc.git
