Comments on: Using GObject Introspection + Gjs to provide a JavaScript plugin engine http://berrange.com/posts/2010/01/10/using-gobject-introspection-gjs-to-provide-a-javascript-plugin-engine/ Writing about photography, open source software, virtualization & more Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel P. Berrangé » Blog Archive » A “Hello World” like example for GTK-VNC in Perl, Python and JavaScript http://berrange.com/posts/2010/01/10/using-gobject-introspection-gjs-to-provide-a-javascript-plugin-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-25142 Daniel P. Berrangé » Blog Archive » A “Hello World” like example for GTK-VNC in Perl, Python and JavaScript Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:12:16 +0000 http://wordpress.berrange.com/?p=7#comment-25142 [...] have written before about what a great benefit GObject Introspection is, by removing the need to write dynamic language [...] [...] have written before about what a great benefit GObject Introspection is, by removing the need to write dynamic language [...]

]]> By: Daniel http://berrange.com/posts/2010/01/10/using-gobject-introspection-gjs-to-provide-a-javascript-plugin-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Daniel Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:41:38 +0000 http://wordpress.berrange.com/?p=7#comment-7 WRT to the GIR XML being inaccurate, that's where the annotations I mentioned come into play. <br /><br />http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection/Annotations<br /><br />The current GIR files for many libraries are providing the bare minimum to get things working. Providing introspection for the whole GNOME platform, including adding API annotations where needed, is a major task that is underway...<br /><br />http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AddGObjectIntrospectionSupport WRT to the GIR XML being inaccurate, that's where the annotations I mentioned come into play.

http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection/Annotations

The current GIR files for many libraries are providing the bare minimum to get things working. Providing introspection for the whole GNOME platform, including adding API annotations where needed, is a major task that is underway…

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AddGObjectIntrospectionSupport

]]> By: pbrobinson http://berrange.com/posts/2010/01/10/using-gobject-introspection-gjs-to-provide-a-javascript-plugin-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-8 pbrobinson Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:01:58 +0000 http://wordpress.berrange.com/?p=7#comment-8 No problems! Saves reinventing the wheel. Its undergoing package review for Fedora at the moment so should be in rawhide shortly. No problems! Saves reinventing the wheel. Its undergoing package review for Fedora at the moment so should be in rawhide shortly.

]]> By: Richard Jones http://berrange.com/posts/2010/01/10/using-gobject-introspection-gjs-to-provide-a-javascript-plugin-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Richard Jones Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:01:48 +0000 http://wordpress.berrange.com/?p=7#comment-9 There was a guy doing OCaml bindings using GIR. He had a lot of problems with the GIR XML being inaccurate and requiring hand-modification to work:<br /><br />http://yquem.inria.fr/pipermail/lablgtk/2009-October/000317.html<br />http://yquem.inria.fr/pipermail/lablgtk/2009-October/000319.html<br /><br />It appears also that GIR doesn't fully specify types, at least not enough to define bindings for type-rich static languages:<br /><br />http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2009/10/2bea75bf2ab07f700193e014678aa337.en.html There was a guy doing OCaml bindings using GIR. He had a lot of problems with the GIR XML being inaccurate and requiring hand-modification to work:

http://yquem.inria.fr/pipermail/lablgtk/2009-October/000317.html
http://yquem.inria.fr/pipermail/lablgtk/2009-October/000319.html

It appears also that GIR doesn't fully specify types, at least not enough to define bindings for type-rich static languages:

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2009/10/2bea75bf2ab07f700193e014678aa337.en.html

]]> By: Daniel http://berrange.com/posts/2010/01/10/using-gobject-introspection-gjs-to-provide-a-javascript-plugin-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Daniel Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:56:50 +0000 http://wordpress.berrange.com/?p=7#comment-10 Thanks for mentioning ethos. I love it when my ideas are soo good that someone has already implemented them :-) Time to delete my custom plugin code! Thanks for mentioning ethos. I love it when my ideas are soo good that someone has already implemented them :-) Time to delete my custom plugin code!

]]> By: pbrobinson http://berrange.com/posts/2010/01/10/using-gobject-introspection-gjs-to-provide-a-javascript-plugin-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-11 pbrobinson Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:32:07 +0000 http://wordpress.berrange.com/?p=7#comment-11 The ethos library provides a plugin interface for creating plugins using C, JS or python. emerillon uses it for creating plugins for its map stuff. Details here http://git.dronelabs.com/ethos/about/ The ethos library provides a plugin interface for creating plugins using C, JS or python. emerillon uses it for creating plugins for its map stuff. Details here http://git.dronelabs.com/ethos/about/

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