[poppler] Poppler glibmm bindings

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Tue Oct 16 15:55:39 PDT 2012 

El Dimarts, 16 d'octubre de 2012, a les 17:40:30, Glenn Rice va escriure:
> The standard practice for glib based libraries wrapped in this manner is to
> include those files in the repo.  

Interesting, does anyone what's the rationale behind that?

> However, it may be possible to modify the build system to generate them 
every time.

To be honest, at the moment i'm leaning towards a separate repo might be a 
better idea for poppler-glibmm, i was thinking it'd be something like 2 files 
not something like 40.

Anyone has any opinion? Carlos?

Cheers,
  Albert

> Glenn
> 
> On 10/16/2012 05:35 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Dimarts, 16 d'octubre de 2012, a les 17:18:55, Glenn Rice va escriure:
> >> There is some stuff included in that tarball that would not need to be in
> >> the repo.  The entire doc/reference/html directory should be removed. 
> >> Also
> >> all of the files in the build directory should be removed.  Of course
> >> there
> >> are some obvious things that would not be needed in the repository like
> >> any
> >> Makefile.in file, the configure script, and the aclocal.m4 file.  The
> >> tarball I sent was generated by "make distcheck."  It would be possible
> >> to
> >> not include most of the *.cc and *.h files in poppler-glib/poppler-glibmm
> >> (those generated from the *.ccg and *.hg files in poppler-glib/src), but
> >> it
> >> would be best to include those as they are only generated when the
> >> corresponding *.ccg and *.hg files are changed.
> > 
> > Hmmm, in my opinion including autogenerated stuff in the repo is asking
> > for
> > problems, couldn't we just tell the make process to generate them as the
> > rest of autogenerated files are (e.g. moc files in the qt4 frontend)?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >    Albert
> >> 
> >> Glenn
> >> 
> >> On 10/16/2012 03:35 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >>> El Dimarts, 16 d'octubre de 2012, a les 15:11:34, Glenn Rice va 
escriure:
> >>>> Although it is not generated from the gir files, for the most part all
> >>>> you have to do is tell gmmproc what to name the c++ classes and
> >>>> methods,
> >>>> and which c objects and methods they are derived from.  Then the actual
> >>>> c++ code is generated.  There were not many cases that needed hand
> >>>> coding. The hardest part was converting your poppler-glib demo to use
> >>>> gtkmm and my poppler-glibmm library.  Of course there is no automatic
> >>>> way to do that.
> >>>> 
> >>>> As I understand it there is some work by the gtkmm devs to do some of
> >>>> the conversion work from the gir files, but I think that is to replace
> >>>> the clumsy defs file generation that is currently used. Not to replace
> >>>> the hg and ccg file creation, from which files the actual code is
> >>>> generated.
> >>>> 
> >>>> In any case, I have attached a tarball of the code.
> >>> 
> >>> Wow there's lots of stuff in there, what parts are autogenerated? I.e.
> >>> would we need all those files in the repo? or just parts?
> >>> 
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> 
> >>>     Albert
> >>>> 
> >>>> Glenn
> >>>> 
> >>>> On 10/16/2012 01:58 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >>>>> El Dimarts, 16 d'octubre de 2012, a les 13:50:07, Glenn Rice va
> > 
> > escriure:
> >>>>>> The library is not automatically generated from the gir files.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Sad :-/
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> It uses
> >>>>>> the standard method that glib libraries are wrapped via gmmproc. 
> >>>>>> There
> >>>>>> is some maintenance involved as with any library, but generally not
> >>>>>> that
> >>>>>> much. gmmproc uses macros that automate the wrapping of most things.
> >>>>>> There are some things that the macros don't properly handle and so
> >>>>>> they
> >>>>>> have to be hand coded.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Oh :-(
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> I am willing to maintain it, and will make it
> >>>>>> available somewhere else if you are not interested.  I could attach a
> >>>>>> tarball of the source if you want to take a look.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Well, let's see how much code and let's see if someone mentions they
> >>>>> are
> >>>>> interested in the feature. I am not pro nor against it at the moment.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>      Albert
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Glenn
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> On 10/16/2012 12:43 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >>>>>>> El Dimarts, 16 d'octubre de 2012, a les 08:17:44, Glenn Rice va
> >>> 
> >>> escriure:
> >>>>>>>> I have created a library that wraps the poppler-glib library using
> >>>>>>>> glibmm/gtkmm's gmmproc.  I don't know if you are interested in
> >>>>>>>> this.
> >>>>>>>> I
> >>>>>>>> am
> >>>>>>>> not sure where to make this available to the public.  It would be
> >>>>>>>> somewhat
> >>>>>>>> nice to have it at freedesktop.org so that it is together with
> >>>>>>>> poppler.
> >>>>>>>> If
> >>>>>>>> you are interested it could even be integrated in with the rest of
> >>>>>>>> poppler.
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>      I would even be willing to pass the code off to you.  I did
> >>>>>>>>      this
> >>>>>>>>      for
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> purely educational purposes of my own.  Although it would be nice
> >>>>>>>> to
> >>>>>>>> share
> >>>>>>>> the result.
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> If you are not interested I will probably make it available via
> >>>>>>>> SourceForge.>>
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>      If you would like to take a look at what I have that would be
> >>>>>>>>      great
> >>>>>>>>      too.
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> How much code is it? And more importantly, how much maintaince it
> >>>>>>> needs?
> >>>>>>> Is it automagically generated from the gir thing?
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>       Albert
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> Glenn Rice
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