Re: Pango perl bindings

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> wrote:

> [I'm CC'ing the gtk-perl list, since that's where this kind of
> discussion should happen.]
>
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 03:14 +0800, Chia-liang Kao wrote:
>
> > I am wondering if it makes sense to separate the Pango bindings as its
> > own dist (or to allow building only Pango from the current dist), as
> > pango renders to cairo context, rather thanto gtk, and is useful for
> > people doing vector drawing that aren't using any of gtk.
>
> Yes, I think it does make sense to be able to use pango independently of
> Gtk2.  The question is how to do the separation in a
> backwards-compatible way.
>
> Saying "use Gtk2;" will still need to pull in the pango stuff -- this
> can be accomplished by making Gtk2 depend on the new pango module.
>
> Also, Gtk2 currently makes the pango stuff available under the namespace
> Gtk2::Pango, and that will have to continue to be the case.
> Unfortunately, Gtk2 also provides a Gtk2/Pango.pm file for some
> constants.  So the new pango module can't just use the Gtk2::Pango
> namespace -- "use Gtk2::Pango;" still has to pull in Gtk2's
> Gtk2/Pango.pm.  So I think the new pango module should just use the
> namespace "Pango".  Gtk2 would then need to map Pango::* to
> Gtk2::Pango::*.  How could this be done?

Can't you manipulate directly Perl namespace which, IIRC, is a global hash ?

Simply duplicate each Gtk2::Pango => FOO to also become Pango => FOO.

I think there is a module to manipulate Perl namespace.

> -- 
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> -Torsten
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Regards,
  Sergei.

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