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On Friday 06 of May 2011 15:18:20 Marijn wrote: |
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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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> >> |
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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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> >> |
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> >> Marijn |
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> > |
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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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> > Message-ID: |
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> > <AANLkTimjJIGW6k5vQCX-wryeYy_FPUTQpRN7jmW4xRKN@××××××××××.com> |
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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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No. |
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http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@l.g.o/msg40069.html |
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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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regards |
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MM |
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