[PATCH v2 0/4] Enum and bitfield XML attributes

[Nils Chr. Brause]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Nils Chr. Brause <nilschrbrause at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >> - Support for cross-interface enum referencing (e.g.
>> >> wl_shm_pool::create_buffer::format to wl_shm::format, and
>> >> wl_surface::set_buffer_transform::transform to wl_output::transform).
>> >
>> > Just to be clear on this, I think there is consensus that this should
>> > be added in a later stage.
>>
>> This should be added as soon as possible. Otherwise this is still not very
>> useful for language bindings. With these missing I would still have to
>> maintain
>> my own copy of the wayland.xml for the Wayland C++ Bindigns.
>
>
> Do you have an xml scanner that handles this? I think that is the main
> reason this is being delayed is that somebody has to figure out how to parse
> it with xml.
>

When I first proposed the inclusion of the "enum" and "bitfield"
attributes to the
XML file, I had a patch for the C scanner, that used the dot notation everywhere
to deal with cross references. The scanner for my C++ bindings does the same.

Anyway, from my perspective of a language binding developer, having the
correct attributes in the XML file is most important and appropriate patches for
the C scanner can be added later. ;)

I am kinda afraid that these will be forgotten otherwise.

Cheers,
Nils