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 1QIUJa-0002dj-PF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 23:20:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B47EE0478; Fri, 6 May 2011 23:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF30E0175 for ; Fri, 6 May 2011 23:19:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so3605498wwj.10 for ; Fri, 06 May 2011 16:19:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=L0Cgl225v1SAyRvpc4mBNzEndF/GTgwOct6XRFC0naI=; b=EP0gUWac4kNMKdB/dbrVkaXKgl2p3oOLCu9hRs2GcRKVlMyuvHTIXmHpxPVYuKGMYM pDcvxdxjlBuiDqy7/sAsXYy1TkuLLx5tfY/1MXWTuZp8EBFV+nzppHUoNEguzo3gK6j5 oyC4tbkMETB89zJ+PgbmuIeViTR+P15F2GWlQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=LwOW+R+WnmsMDGFgQyjhEOKuoabZtFojBSvcRv3YZIbKRYbk+XGHJA4T28sUZjfUOw 8SOQLB2o9s4ESuFdxyW0B2ERG4OMVUA85r6sgslF8kRI6oTIpZqu0AaD9Hwpt6MZq0IB Dm89BcHve1ujBm5VYWWxReooy3Q3GJKVaIz8c= Received: by 10.216.221.67 with SMTP id q45mr32113wep.97.1304723958082; Fri, 06 May 2011 16:19:18 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.187.85 with HTTP; Fri, 6 May 2011 16:18:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201105062004.48810.reavertm@gmail.com> References: <4DC3B407.50901@gentoo.org> <1304684738.4741.4.camel@gdartigu.lan.rep.sj> <4DC3F51C.5070406@gentoo.org> <201105062004.48810.reavertm@gmail.com> From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 04:48:57 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: l0Tb99B8lU00aFLsWFOA9lqHVuE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] introspection use flag To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3083b08b9e735ef26431d23dfb21795f On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > On Friday 06 of May 2011 15:18:20 Marijn wrote: >> And what happened to the proposed description: >> >> introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing for the >> dynamic generation of bindings for various languages > > No. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg40069.html > It's things like this that convinced us that there's no real advantage in having it as a global use-flag. Maybe 3 years later when there is *still* nothing else in the tree that uses "introspection" besides gobject-introspection, we'll revisit this and finally make it a global use-flag. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team