[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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El dom, 20-06-2010 a las 20:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan escribió:
> Hi folks,
> I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection.
> 
> The purpose of the flag is to enable the building of GIR for the
> package using dev-libs/gobject-introspection. gobject-introspection is
> going to be quite important in upcoming GNOME releases, allowing for
> the automated generation of bindings for several languages.
> 
> We already have 13 packages using this flag, with several more to
> come. The current description being used in packages' metadata.xml
> sucks - I'll put something more descriptive in the final flag.
> 
> Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if
> there aren't any.
> 
> Cheers!

I agree with having it as a new global USE-flag, but I am unsure about
enabling it by default just now, since some automagic dependency
problems appeared some time ago :-/, but I will leave this decision to
other Gnome team members as I don't know much about introspection and
maybe these issues got fixed already

Best regards



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