Xfce language bindings

[Benedikt Meurer]

David Fraser wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>> David Fraser wrote:
>>
>>>> First off all, I've to say, that I've looked into GFC a few weeks 
>>>> ago in quite some detail, and discovered some parts where I'd prefer 
>>>> the Gtkmm way. These are mostly details, though. In general I think 
>>>> that GFC is a good attempt to wrap the Gtk+ API.
>>>>
>>>> I've been thinking of - and working on - language bindings for Xfce 
>>>> for over a year now. I have several initial attempts with C++ (using 
>>>> Gtkmm mostly), D, Scheme and Ruby bindings (and Olivier came up with 
>>>> the idea of Python bindings recently) hanging around on my 
>>>> harddisks. That said, none of these attempts satisfied my needs. 
>>>> What I'm looking for is a general "wrapper kit", that allows to 
>>>> easily integrate another language into Xfce w/o the need to maintain 
>>>> another language binding (as you might know, Xfce has only a few 
>>>> developers, and we can't maintain x language bindings like Gnome).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm relatively new here - just know that wxPython uses SWIG to 
>>> autogenerate most of the wrappers. That's for a fairly complex C++ 
>>> toolkit but it works really well.
>>
>>
>>
>> I wasn't talking about wrapper generators, cause they tend to cause 
>> the maintance problems I described above. I was talking about a 
>> generic framework for language bindings, similar to what DotNET was 
>> originally invented for, but more generic maybe.
>>
>> But I agree with Brian here, this would be a lot of work, impossible 
>> for an open source project like Xfce to handle this in spare time. 
>> We'd probably need a team of 3-4 software developers working full-time 
>> on this for about a year, maybe two.
> 
> 
> Have just started looking at pygtk, since I thought, since xfce is built 
> with gtk, and a binding already exists, it may be possible to use this 
> for xfce.
> pygtk has a h2defs which can be used for extending pygtk (see 
> http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/index.py?req=all#1.1)
> Has anyone looked at this route before?

h2defs is just another wrapper generator.

> David

Benedikt