From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OQQLN-00080p-Qj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:38:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC10FE0916; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp01.jazztel.es (smtp01.jazztel.es [62.14.3.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADEBEE08F6 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:37:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [87.222.151.202] (helo=[192.168.1.201]) by smtp01.jazztel.es with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQQKy-0007tr-4l; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:37:48 +0200 Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection From: Pacho Ramos To: Arun Raghavan Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, gnome In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-3K5e12uSvsc7yiE1+9YS" Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:37:41 +0200 Message-ID: <1277062661.5210.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.1.2 X-AntiSpam-Checked: Passed : Threshold - 0.0 : SA jazztel.es X-Virus-Checked: Passed : Kaspersky at jazztel.es X-Archives-Salt: a7b6fb74-50f2-4688-a2ca-3a676c8a874e X-Archives-Hash: 3dea9b871cb279c4024e0f53aa9dd3c0 --=-3K5e12uSvsc7yiE1+9YS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable El dom, 20-06-2010 a las 20:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan escribi=C3=B3: > Hi folks, > I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if > there aren't any. >=20 > 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 --=-3K5e12uSvsc7yiE1+9YS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkwebgUACgkQCaWpQKGI+9Rh4wCfW7xahtdY4+HAT9Xq451pd6JH wIwAnjTuseH1yCHcMGc/rrs0Baio5V04 =8rWg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-3K5e12uSvsc7yiE1+9YS--