Re: GObject Introspection as part of the GNOME platform

2009-03-11 Thread Owen Taylor
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 20:17 +0100, Mathieu Lacage wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 11:08 -0400, muppet wrote: > > Johan Dahlin wrote: > > > As far as I can see there aren't any easy solutions. > > > We're depending on libffi to calculate struct sizes for the typelib > > > which is very > > > much hos

Re: GObject Introspection as part of the GNOME platform

2009-03-11 Thread Brian J. Tarricone
Johan Dahlin wrote: In my opinion, supporting cross-compilation shouldn't be a blocker for integration into glib proper. It's more of a 'nice feature' to support. As long as that means "glib will still cross-compile, just the introspection stuff gets disabled," I'm ok with that. Otherwise...

Re: GObject Introspection as part of the GNOME platform

2009-03-11 Thread Mathieu Lacage
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 11:08 -0400, muppet wrote: > Johan Dahlin wrote: > > As far as I can see there aren't any easy solutions. > > We're depending on libffi to calculate struct sizes for the typelib > > which is very > > much host and compiler dependent. g-ir-compile really needs to run on the >

Re: GObject Introspection as part of the GNOME platform

2009-03-11 Thread Andy Tai
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:08 AM, muppet wrote: > > Johan Dahlin wrote: > > As far as I can see there aren't any easy solutions. > > We're depending on libffi to calculate struct sizes for the typelib > > which is very > > much host and compiler dependent. g-ir-compile really needs to run on > th

Re: GObject Introspection as part of the GNOME platform

2009-03-11 Thread Rob Taylor
muppet wrote: > Johan Dahlin wrote: >> As far as I can see there aren't any easy solutions. >> We're depending on libffi to calculate struct sizes for the typelib >> which is very >> much host and compiler dependent. g-ir-compile really needs to run on the >> target system the way things are setup

Re: GObject Introspection as part of the GNOME platform

2009-03-11 Thread muppet
Johan Dahlin wrote: > As far as I can see there aren't any easy solutions. > We're depending on libffi to calculate struct sizes for the typelib > which is very > much host and compiler dependent. g-ir-compile really needs to run on the > target system the way things are setup right now. The same

Re: GObject Introspection as part of the GNOME platform

2009-03-11 Thread Johan Dahlin
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Rob Taylor wrote: > Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > This sounds great to me, though I do hope we can make sure there's an > obvious approach to cross-compiling it before including in glib proper. >  - and that includes good support for building the typelibs when > cross

Re: High-performance Priority Queue / Heap for glib

2009-03-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi Maik, I suggest you open a bug on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ and attach your latest patch there. I like to comment on the patch, but don't want to take more of your time until the glib maintainers show interest in merging this. Cheers, behdad On 03/10/2009 03:53 PM, Maik Zumstrull wrote:

Re: GObject Introspection as part of the GNOME platform

2009-03-11 Thread Rob Taylor
Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 15:18 -0300, Johan Dahlin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We think GObject Introspection adds a lot to the GNOME platform and >> would like to >> discuss how it can be integrated. > > yey! > > absolutely agree about finally having G-I integrated in the platform.

Re: GObject Introspection as part of the GNOME platform

2009-03-11 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 15:18 -0300, Johan Dahlin wrote: > Hi, > > We think GObject Introspection adds a lot to the GNOME platform and > would like to > discuss how it can be integrated. yey! absolutely agree about finally having G-I integrated in the platform. > * Source comment (gtk-doc) annota