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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: GLib/GObject+C as the lingua franca? (was: kwallet and QCA)
From:       Richard Dale <rdale () foton ! es>
Date:       2008-07-25 15:48:08
Message-ID: 200807251648.08481.rdale () foton ! es
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On Friday 25 July 2008 14:17:14 nf2 wrote:
> I wonder if a kind of mixed style would work: libraries with public
> GObject/C APIs, but internally stdc++. 

> Staying with GObject/C for the 
> API's probably makes sense for language bindings (AFAIK lot's of them
> can be auto-generated), C is still the lowest common denominator,
> abstract interfaces can be modeled with GInterfaces easily (like GIO
> does a lot) ...
Well I don't have much of a personal interest in the rest of this issue, but 
in terms of auto-generation, KDE bindings are way, way ahead of anything that 
GObject based binding generators can do.

-- Richard


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