Re: [gentoo-user] introspection USE flag and KDE

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 17.08.2011 18:03, schrieb Dale:
>    
>> Michael Mol wrote:
>>      
>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Adam Carter<adamcarter3@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> that and find https://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection
>>>>
>>>> Now ask someone who codes WTF that page means :) Sounds like it allows
>>>> programs to use code from different languages.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> More specifically, while Gnome apps could already be written in
>>> multiple languages, the libraries bridging those languages to C were
>>> cumbersome (and thus buggy) to maintain, and this introspection change
>>> is intended to result in a cleanup of that process.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>
>> Ohhh, now I see.  I thought it was talking about languages like English,
>> Spanish etc.  lol
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>>      
> The ASCII-art on page [1] pretty much sums it up with regard to the
> compile step:
>
> There is a second compiler involved that parses the comments in the C
> source code and generates binary files with type information etc. which
> can then be used for language bindings.
>
> So, it will probably slow down compilation and use more disk space (but
> not very much, as stated on -dev). Also, as stated on -dev, ALWAYS
> enable this unless you want to recompile most of @world if you ever need
> a language binding.
>
> [1] https://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection/Architecture
>
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp
>
>    

Ahhhhh, pictures, well sort of anyway.  My biggest thing is I don't use 
Gnome.  It sounds like KDE may be moving this direction too.  So, may as 
well leave it alone.  I did read somewhere where the size increase is 
fairly small. I got a 160Gb drive for my OS so I think it will fit on 
there.  lol

Now I see better.  Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)