[Gtk-sharp-list] GObject Introspection?

[Daniel Hughes]

I maintain an open source GTK# 2 application which is included in
debian/ubuntu. However I can't port to GTK# 3 until there are
supported bindings which are packaged for Debian.

At a minimum I need:
* The bindings are supported and stable
* The bindings are packaged for and included in debian (and by extention ubuntu)
* The bindings will be updated as GTK changes (otherwise my app will
be removed from debian due to unmet dependencies)

If these assurances cannot be made then I have no choice but to
continue to use GTK# 2.

My guess is that the same is true for other opensource GTK# applications.


On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 18/04/16 01:10, Stephan Sundermann wrote:
>> The problem is that using gobject-introspection the API will not be
>> compatible with the current gtk#3 API. This is because
>> gobject-introspection data is at a lot of places more accurate than
>> parsing the source files with a perl script. gobject-introspection
>> has a lot better information like ownership of a variable or information
>> on arrays. Especially these two cases are error prone
>> in the current gtk-sharp bindings.
>>
>> I think it's a lot cleaner to use either the current bindinator tool or
>> write a complete new generator that directly takes the
>> gobject-introspection data than to use some vala to C# converter.
>
> Well, for what it's worth, I very much think that keeping the current,
> unmaintained, old, (dead?) gtk#3 stable is not of much benefit. If we
> have an option to get up to date gtk#3 for current gtk versions, which
> can be kept up to date, and which is more accurate than the current
> gtk#3, I would recommend going there.
>
> The projects that use the current gtk#3 and can't/won't update their
> code to work with new gtk#3 can quite easily(?) have their own copy of
> the legacy gtk#3 dlls.
>
>  Tomi