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Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 17.08.2011 18:03, schrieb Dale: |
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>> Michael Mol wrote: |
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>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Adam Carter<adamcarter3@×××××.com> |
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>>>> that and find https://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection |
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>>>> Now ask someone who codes WTF that page means :) Sounds like it allows |
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>>>> programs to use code from different languages. |
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>>> More specifically, while Gnome apps could already be written in |
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>>> multiple languages, the libraries bridging those languages to C were |
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>>> cumbersome (and thus buggy) to maintain, and this introspection change |
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>>> is intended to result in a cleanup of that process. |
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>> Ohhh, now I see. I thought it was talking about languages like English, |
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>> Spanish etc. lol |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> The ASCII-art on page [1] pretty much sums it up with regard to the |
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> compile step: |
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> There is a second compiler involved that parses the comments in the C |
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> source code and generates binary files with type information etc. which |
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> can then be used for language bindings. |
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> So, it will probably slow down compilation and use more disk space (but |
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> not very much, as stated on -dev). Also, as stated on -dev, ALWAYS |
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> enable this unless you want to recompile most of @world if you ever need |
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> a language binding. |
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> [1] https://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection/Architecture |
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> Regards, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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Ahhhhh, pictures, well sort of anyway. My biggest thing is I don't use |
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Gnome. It sounds like KDE may be moving this direction too. So, may as |
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well leave it alone. I did read somewhere where the size increase is |
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fairly small. I got a 160Gb drive for my OS so I think it will fit on |
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there. lol |
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Now I see better. Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |