Re: Scripting in Gnome

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

A Qui, 2004-02-05 às 19:16, jamie escreveu:
> On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 18:45, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> 
> > > I was just suggesting if bonobo was going to use D-Bus in the future
> and
> > > so would have been rewritten in parts then it might also be handy to
> > > have an xml representation of the IDL as well. You can hardly deny
> that
> > > it is less effort to transform xml version of IDL into language
> bindings
> > > for currently non-supported languages. 
> > 
> > Why would XML work better than IDL?  IDL could just be compiled to
> stubs
> > that use D-BUS.  The "oh, it's XML, so it's just going to be easier
> and
> > better" rehashing is getting old.  Especially given detailed claims to
> > the contrary by others in this thread.
> 
> Whether you use XSLT or a built in xml parser, its quicker to develop a
> programme to read in and process xml than plain text - okay? Im fed up

  Have you ever heard of libIDL ?

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