gtk2-perl binding methodology documentation?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

i'm in the process of creating perl bindings to a set of libraries based
on gtk 2 (lots of GObject subclasses), and am intending to have these
interface tightly with gtk2-perl.

i've been looking through the gtk2-perl and gnome2-perl source in depth,
and i can't really figure out a few of the more bizarre points of the
build system.  it doesn't help that i've never used Inline before.  :-(

the GUIDE in gnome2-perl (i assume written by daniel) is pretty helpful
for creating the binding code; could somebody write up a quick doc about
the build system?  i'm interested in stuff like how it works, why it
does the things it does, why it doesn't use Inline::MakeMaker, gotchas
and bizarre subtleties, etc.


also, i have a version of Makefile.PL that also installs the gtk2-perl
headers (in someplace logical like $(PREFIX)/include/Gtk2, would
include/gtk2-perl be better?) so that they can be used more easily by
other packages.  simple patch, i'll send it to whomever is interested in
committing it...


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muppet <scott asofyet org>