From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Browning To: Ariel Rios Cc: Marius Vollmer , Ariel Rios , guile-gtk@sourceware.cygnus.com, Miroslav silovic , gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: g-wrap and guile-gnome/gtk Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:54:00 -0000 Message-id: <87zoj4dfff.fsf@raven.localnet> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00024.html Ariel Rios writes: > If there is a way of having a performance icnrease it would be even > better ;) I am interested in doing the Corba /ORBit bindings using > g-wrap or whatever new schema we came up with Well, I think we can probably separate this into two issues. 1) What should an API spec look like (say for gtk, glib, opengl, curses, etc.). 2) How should the implementation work? (i.e. we can potentially change that for performance later in any way we like without having to change the spec). Also, after noticing the in, out, inout, arg bits of your latest .defs proposal, it looks like it's somewhat mirroring other IDLs (of which, I'm only really passingly familiar with ILU). One thing I've wondered about for a while now is whether or not it might make sense to mirror (in scheme forms) the semantics of one of the IDLs (CORBA being the biggest elephant on the block). However, on the other side of that fence, I also wonder, whether or not there might be a legitimate place for a tool (and perhaps g-wrap should be that tool), that's exclusively focused on providing very well integrated, efficient, and clear (both in specification and in execution) bindings for C APIs from guile. Basically the question comes down to "Is it possible in this case to server all masters well?". Or in more concrete terms, say I were to try to do something very CORBA-esque with g-wrap's spec. Would I end up with a tool that was much more complex, harder to implement and understand, and didn't really provide any substantial improvments as compared to a tool that's specifically aimed at just the guile<->C API problem? I don't really know, and I'd love to hear arguments either way. To a substantial extent, I'm not the best person to evaluate this argument, since I have little or no experience with CORBA, though I've done plenty of DO/RPC related work. Thanks -- Rob Browning PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930