Pidl - an IDL for GObject boilerplate and language bindings
- From: Christian Berentsen <christian berentsen tandberg com>
- To: gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Cc: language-bindings gnome org
- Subject: Pidl - an IDL for GObject boilerplate and language bindings
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:18:37 +0100
https://launchpad.net/pidl
Pidl is an Interface Description Language for GObject C-code with
automatic language bindings.
The programmer mainly writes '.pidl' files and implementation in C. Much
GObject boilerplate is hidden.
Language bindings are automatically generated.
(Currently for Python, C++ and C#)
As we are developing a product relying heavily on GObject, we came to
the conclusion that the risk of having every developer handling
boilerplate code could become a big maintenance headache.
Pidl is still in its infancy and is being evolved on a day to day basis.
The system is developed in TDD fashion, with test coverage in Python.
Could this be interesting for anybody else writing GObject based
software?
Current feature summary:
Emits C++, Python and C# (and GObject front stubs in C)
Supports classes, interfaces, properties, methods, and signals.
Supports implementing interfaces in C++ and C# (not yet Python)
Enums
Errors/Exceptions on methods marked as throwing. (GError marshalled to
language exceptions, modelled after dbus-glib)
Weak references (Properties only)
Inheritance
and more.
--
Jarl Christian Berentsen
Ole Andre Vadla Ravnaas
(Pidl core monkeys)
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