[poppler] Poppler glibmm bindings
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Wed Oct 17 11:10:32 PDT 2012
El Dimecres, 17 d'octubre de 2012, a les 12:59:47, Glenn Rice va escriure:
> Actually, I just checked and I was mistaken. gtkmm only keeps the *.cc and
> *.h files that are not generated in the repo. Those that are generated
> from the ccg and hg files are not. Glenn
That makes more sense.
P.S: You forgot again to answer to the list.
>
> On 10/17/2012 12:56 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Dimarts, 16 d'octubre de 2012, a les 18:03:59, Glenn Rice va escriure:
> >> I think the rational is that those files are generated by gmmproc, and
> >> gmmproc is not invoked in every build cycle. It is only called when the
> >> ccg and hg files are modified. I think the reason it is not called every
> >> time is because it is rather slow.
> >
> > Right, but compiling is also slow, that's why make only generates the .o
> > files when the .cpp file changes, but that doesn't mean we put the .o
> > files in the repo, no?
> >
> >> It generates the c++ code as well as
> >> all of the documentation. It seems that it should be possible to set
> >> things up so that it is called when needed c++ files are missing though.
> >> I
> >> have a local repository for the library and initially attempted to omit
> >> those files, but had problems with it. I didn't investigate what it
> >> would
> >> take to change the build system though.
> >>
> >> If you would rather have the glibmm bindings in a separate repository, I
> >> am
> >> fine with that. What would I need to do if I wanted to host it on
> >> freedesktop.org?
> >
> > To be honest i don't know, never did any project creation in
> > freedesktop.org.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Albert
> >>
> >> Glenn
> >>
> >> On 10/16/2012 05:55 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >>> 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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