Bug 26250

Summary:	generate gjs and/or seed Javascript bindings for the D-Bus API
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Simon McVittie <smcv>
Component:	tp-glib	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	lowest	CC:	danielle
Version:	git master
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
URL:	http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/danni/telepathy-glib.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/js
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Bug Depends on:	26249
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Description Simon McVittie 2010-01-26 10:21:34 UTC

Danni's branch with GObject Introspection also contains some auto-generated bindings into (one of the dialects of) Javascript. I consider this considerably lower-priority than the introspection work at the moment.

http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/danni/telepathy-glib.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/js

Implementation-wise, I'm not happy for telepathy-glib to grow a build-dependency on Cheetah, which blocks the current implementation of the Javascript part, although it's probably a good prototype to build on. telepathy-glib is relatively fundamental to Telepathy, so we should keep its build-dependencies somewhat light - that's why it avoids going outside the Python standard library for the codegen, and in particular why it doesn't use telepathy-python or dbus-python.

Comment 1 Danielle Madeley 2010-04-16 03:38:56 UTC

So, thinking about it the other day, there's no reason this work has to be part of tp-glib (if we decide to keep it at all once we have rich high-level API).

Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-06-06 01:18:16 UTC

Do we really want this? The current plan seems to move to high level API for bindings.

Comment 3 Simon McVittie 2011-06-06 02:23:22 UTC

Agreed. I'd suggest WONTFIX.

Comment 4 Danielle Madeley 2011-06-06 03:05:03 UTC

I also agree.

High-level is a better solution and clearly the future of Telepathy. Additionally there are problems like ordering guarantees broken by having two connections to D-Bus.

Comment 5 Simon McVittie 2011-06-06 06:45:01 UTC

WONTFIX it is then.

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