Re: [cairo] gobject boxed types

[Johan Dahlin <johan gnome org>]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Colin Walters wrote:
>
> > Here is a patch, should apply to the latest git.
>
> I also like to see gobject enum types for cairo.
>
> Also, should the type names be CairoContext-like or simply cairo_t?  If this
> is going to be used by introspection stuff, CairoContext sounds correct.

Cairo.Context is correct, if we include the namespacing.

> Another pro argument here is that glib bindings like the one proposed are
> meta-bindings, enabling automatic binding of cairo types to various languages.
>
> As it stands [1], the proposed cairo-glib feature/library may also include
> typelib data needed for glib introspection framework to automatically bind
> cairo to supporting languages.  That saves quite some work of writing manual
> bindings for cairo which is the case now.
>
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection/CairoProblem

The GObjectIntrospection framework provides an XML format description of the 
API which is independent of gobject itself, that could be distributed/used 
outside of the glib bindings.

We also have typelib which /is/ dependent on glib, that should obviously go 
with the rest of the cairo-glib stuff.

> I'm probably make it a separate .so.  The intereface to use it is no different
> than having it in cairo.so.  One simply brings in cairo-glib pkg-config
> dependencies.  Where the actual code lives is implementation details.  Any
> objections to that?
>
> Has to wait till after 1.8 at this point though....

This sounds perfectly fine to me.
It'll be trivial for gobject based applications to use cairo-glib instead of 
cairo in their configure/makefile.

Johan