Hi Matt, Matt Arsenault <arse...@rpi.edu> writes:
> On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 02:13 +0800, Andy Stewart wrote: > >> I don't know much about Gobject-introspection, but i don't like use >> Haskell like script to call low-level interface. >> I hope write Gtk+ application with Haskell style, and not use Haskell >> wirte *C Style* code. EventM is good example. >> >> > Most of the work would be preserving a more Haskelly API. It's also a > static binding generator, and not using the introspection library for a > runtime automatic binding like what Seed does. Today, i read some resource about GObject-Introspection. I was think, if we can use introspection library do a runtime automatic binding like Python or Seed does, that's awesome. Static language (Haskell) and runtime binding is cool, that's why i'm interested GObject-Introspection. Then we can use Haskell like a Gtk+ script! But it's haven't much advantage if just do a static binding generator. Because ApiGen and c2hs have do those work well. Haskell should do a runtime binding, it's really useful. I think it's not too hard, because Python also support runtime binding. > >> >> > 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. >> Another problem is, Gobject-introspection support all Gtk+ libraries? >> It's bad if we need change below C code before binding. >> >> > GObject-introspection supports whatever libraries where developers have > added the necessary annotations to their code. I think at this point > most things are annotated. Yes, because GObject-introspection provide a bridge, then we have standard interface for binding, we can generate all code/documentation automatically. And this's advantage of GObject-introspection, maintainer can use less time do more work. Infact, i really want build this tool to replace gtk2hs. But all GNOME libraries is really *huge*, i haven't so much time now. I hope you can do this awesome project. And i suggeste you keep same function/argument as gtk2hs, after your finish job, we can convert from gtk2hs to your project easily. Cheers, -- Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
