Hi Simon, On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 08:54 +0200, Simon Kågedal Reimer wrote: > Hello! > > I've written a tutorial on how to make a basic multilevel "Hello > World" using GObject Introspection: > > http://helgo.net/simon/introspection-tutorial/
Cool. A few high level comments: Do you think it's worth keeping the executable binary introspection model first? If one is designing for introspection, the library model is significantly better. We will need to support it for a variety of reasons; for example, mutter is a fork of metacity which due to a long history is not a shared library, though we've been incrementally moving it in that direction over time. Because one can't pick *multiple* interpreters to run simultaneously, it's better to make the native code a library, and have the toplevel be scripted. Second, it's probably worth going into functionality available directly via existing libraries such as Gio, and mention how that's not a special case - your new shared library works the same way GLib/Gio does. > It's written in Mallard; the markup is in a git repository at > https://www.gitorious.org/gobject-introspection-tutorial We should think about adding this kind of thing to the main developer.gnome.org page somehow. It'd need someone who knows how that page works to assist. Frederic? > There's a fine tutorial on this subject at the Gnome Live wiki, but > there were a few things I thought should be different. It uses > Clutter, which I think gets in the way if you're not already familiar > with that library; I couldn't get it to build since my system has > Clutter 1.0 and the tutorial uses 0.8. I also think it's preferable to > show the build steps such as g-ir-scanner instead of using a build > tool (waf) not all readers will be familiar with, and to not rely so > much on git. Yeah, sorry about the waf thing, I plead temporary insanity[1]. It's probably worth describing Makefile.introspection at least though (which should work without Automake too). [1] Not that waf is bad exactly, we just have in GNOME significant investment in the autotools, and it wasn't very helpful to use an entirely different buildsystem for the tutorial. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
