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On 05/06/11 14:25, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: |
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> Le vendredi 06 mai 2011 à 10:40 +0200, Marijn a écrit : |
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>> Dear all, |
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>> I was just looking into the meaning of the introspection use-flag and |
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>> there are many ebuilds that use it so perhaps it should be globalized, |
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>> which would also give us a chance to improve the naming/description. |
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>> Current descriptions are: |
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>> Use dev-libs/gobject-introspection for introspection |
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>> Enable GObject introspection. |
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>> Currently it is hard to tell which functionality is enabled through this |
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>> flag and the meaning of the descriptions for when the flag is off are |
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>> even more unclear. Does it mean that introspection will not be used or |
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>> will some other way of introspection be used? Either way, perhaps the |
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>> people in the know could shed some light on this issue? |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Marijn |
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> See original thread on this mailing list: |
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> From: Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o> |
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> Subject: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection |
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> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:12:58 +0530 (20/06/2010 16:42:58) |
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Thanks for the pointer![1] Having just read that discussion it seems |
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that even back then many developers found that the name "introspection" |
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is too broad/imprecise. Several alternatives were proposed, like |
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gintrospection, gobject-introspection, gir, api-introspection. I think |
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any of these would have been better than the current name. |
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And what happened to the proposed description: |
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introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing for the |
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dynamic generation of bindings for various languages |
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which at least contains a hint of what the purpose is of this flag? But |
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maybe someone can do even better than that now that this technology has |
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been in use for a while? |
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Marijn |
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[1]:http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=127704501818312&w=2 |
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