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| author | Johan Dahlin <johan@src.gnome.org> | 2008-08-29 10:07:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Johan Dahlin <johan@src.gnome.org> | 2008-08-29 10:07:53 +0000 |
| commit | 65cd82230a7fe2f3b3cb71b66fc81d74d1e918f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 66405b0a8f177a7d94e575087ee217e20b6aae52 /README | |
| parent | 79abab2e4732284b2453b51a745046804e1c1f08 (diff) | |
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@@ -1,8 +1,29 @@ GObject Introspection - -GIR & Typelib formats ===================== -FIXME +The goal of the project is to describe the APIs and collect them in +a uniform, machine readable format. + +GIR XML format +============== + +There's an XML format called GIR used by GObjectIntrospection. +The purpose of it is to provide a common structure to access the complete +available API that a library or other unit of code exports. +It is meant to be language agnostic using namespaces to separate +core, language or library specific functionality. +There are currently only C based tools that work on the format, but it's +meant to be usable to use in other situations, for instance to/from another +set of languages. + +Typelib +======= + +The typelib is a to disk version of the GIR designed to be fast, memory +efficient and complete enough so that language bindings can be written +on top of it without other sources of information. +It is normally compiled from a GIR when a library/program is installed and +accessed from the language binding or another application who wishes to +use the information. Tools ===== @@ -19,6 +40,7 @@ Three tools are shipped with GObject Introspection: API library =========== + There's also a C based library called libgirepository which provides an API to access to the typelib metadata. It also contains an API to invoke functions, given the function info object. The implementation is @@ -31,3 +53,17 @@ roundtrip tests (GIR -> typelib -> GIR). Helping out =========== The introspection framework needs a lot more work, see TODO. + +Homepage +======== +http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection + +Reporting bugs +============== +Bugs should be reported in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/, the glib product and +the introspection component. + +Contact +======= +Mail: gtk-devel-list@gnome.org +IRC: #introspection@irc.gnome.org |