On 02/02/11 17:46, Jürg Billeter wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 08:52 +0000, Rob Taylor wrote: >> How about, in dova mode, you automatically create dova objects wrapping >> the gobjects? Could be done explicitly (per vapi?) to make it obvious. > > While this would theoretically work to some extent for Vala > applications, it would break for Vala libraries, at least when you use > GObject types in your API. It would also complicate things a lot as not > even the basic types such as strings have the same representation in the > two profiles - strings are ref-counted in Dova. > > I think it makes more sense to keep the profiles separate from > language/compiler point of view and just make it easy to create Dova > bindings for GObject libraries based on gobject-introspection.
I think that was roughly what I meant to suggest :) Rob > Jürg > -- Rob Taylor, CTO, Codethink Ltd. - http://codethink.co.uk Twitter: @robtaylor78 - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/robtaylor78 Office: +44 161 236 5575 - Cell: +44 7891 533856 _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
