Xfce language bindings

[David Fraser]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> David Fraser wrote:
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>> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
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>>> David Fraser wrote:
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>>>>> 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).
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> 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?
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> h2defs is just another wrapper generator.

Yes I know it is, and I know you said you weren't talking about wrapper 
generators, but I was :-)

David