Using glib-bindings to bind everyone else

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 15:19 -0400, Daniel B. Faken wrote:
> ("one lib to bring them all and in the darkness bind them")
> 
> This isn't really a specific DBus question, but it applies to developing 
> bindings:
>   If GLib provides a "generic" object model in C, and is already bound in 
> other languages (as I understand: Python, Mono/C#, Java, probably more), 
> why write new bindings for those languages?
>   That is, why not just go through glib?

Other languages have 'better' native representations for some of the
D-BUS types than GLib does; for example a D-BUS STRUCT maps very nicely
to a Python tuple, and variants map to ordinary values.  That said, it
could make sense to base other language bindings on top of GLib once we
get support for custom marshalling/demarshalling.  The Python bindings
already use the GLib mainloop, for example.  

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