From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Livshin <mlivshin@bigfoot.com>
To: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Cc: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>, Ariel Rios <jarios@usa.net>, guile-gtk@sourceware.cygnus.com, Miroslav silovic <silovic@zesoi.fer.hr>
Subject: Re: g-wrap and guile-gnome/gtk
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:42:00 -0000
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X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00018.html

Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

> Well, since everything's just scheme forms, and since the .defs files
> aren't even allowed to be general scheme syntax, this should be easy.
> We could probably even just write a translator script that was nothing
> more than a set of guile macros that rewrote and "displayed" their
> contents as g-wrap specs.

note that the .defs files are apparently supposed to become the
standard way to specify the bindable interface of the various
Gnome-affiliated C libraries.  i.e. they are not just for Guile
anymore.  so .defs -> .gwp translation approach seems like a very
sensible idea to me, whatever way you happen to implement it.

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