GTK+ and other language bindings

[Matt Goodall <mgg isotek co uk>]

This may have been discussed in the past...

Has anyone ever considered defining the gtk+ interfaces in a
non-programming language? I was thinking of something like IDL or XML.

The bindings for C++, python, perl etc could all use the interface
definitions to automatically generate code. If the interface definitions
were based on the C headers then the bindings, which seem to be mostly
wrappers, could be written automatically, leaving just the internals
(signal systems etc) to write manually.

The reason I bring this up is that the gtk-- web page talks about how it
would be nice to parse the gtk+ source code to make the development time
shorter. This must apply to the other binding writers too.

Cheers.

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* Matt Goodall, mgg@isotek.co.uk
* Isotek Electronics Ltd
* Claro House, Servia Road, Leeds, LS7 1NL. England


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