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Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications
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Andreas Rottmann |
Subject: |
Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:54:16 +0200 |
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Xavier Ordoquy <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:01, Owen Taylor wrote:
>> If the .defs files are supposed to describe the GTK+ (etc.) interfaces,
>> it really seems strange for me to have them maintained independently
>> of GTK+.
>
> That's probably because of historical reasons. However, there may also
> be some specific things among languages but those specific parts could
> be handled by the language code generator
>
>> Why not have .defs files, and generate the binary info from them? The
>> .defs files are already there, and they contain more information than
>> the headers do (well, comment parsing might change that, but you could
>> create comments from the .defs files :)). Just an idea...
>
> I would be interested to know what are the informations the .defs file
> have that the header don't. Maybe a more precise deprecated field, but
> out of that ?
>
Types of GLists, wether NULL is allowed for pointer values, default
argument values, ownership of pointers, out of the top of my head.
Andy
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- Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Andreas Rottmann, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Murray Cumming, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Andreas Rottmann, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Owen Taylor, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Andreas Rottmann, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Owen Taylor, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Xavier Ordoquy, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications,
Andreas Rottmann <=
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, muppet, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Andreas Rottmann, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Murray Cumming, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Murray Cumming, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Andreas Rottmann, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Murray Cumming, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Andreas Rottmann, 2004/03/30
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, James Henstridge, 2004/03/31
- Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Andreas Rottmann, 2004/03/31
Re: Cooperating on .defs API specifications, Xavier Ordoquy, 2004/03/30