Hi, I'm thinking of applying to Google summer of code for Haskell to work on gtk2hs. I'm thinking of writing a static binding generator based on gobject-introspection data. Gobject-introspection is the new way to develop bindings for GNOME.
I think it could replace most of the current automatic code generation, and reduce the amount of work that needs to be done by hand. It would replace the current ApiGen and associated Perl scripts, and make it easier to maintain and produce new bindings to various GNOME libraries which aren't currently bound, like telepathy. I've thought of a few issues with doing this, such as introspection not having an annotation for whether a function causes a callback for finding safe/unsafe functions, but those where it isn't obvious / doesn't take a function aren't all that common, but overall I think it would be better than the current system. I'm also thinking it might be good to skip the c2hs layer in this new tool, avoiding the issues with gtk2hs having to maintain its own old c2hs fork vs. the regular version on Hackage. What do other people think of this idea? - Matt Arsenault ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Gtk2hs-devel mailing list Gtk2hs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk2hs-devel
