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Problem statement
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On-disk registry for mapping namespace to typelib.
Conceptually similar to mono /etc/mono/config.
It should be possible in a dynamic language such as python to just do:
>>> import PythonIntrospectionBindings
>>> import Gtk
Gtk should be a special namespace provided by the package containing the
Gtk namespace
Layout of the on disk tool
==========================
Location to should be /var/lib/glib/introspection-registry.xml
Should be read completely. Not expected to be larger than one page on most
systems.
Layout in XML:
<root>
<registry-path location="/usr/lib/typelibs/1.0/">
<registry-path location="$HOME/.typelibs/">
<entry namespace="Gtk"
library-location="libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0"
typelib-location="gtk.typelib"/>
</root>
FIXME: version?
FIXME: pkg-config name?
The overhead should be reduced to a minimum, both runtime and memory footprint.
Thus a binary format that is mmap(2):able is ideal:
gir-registry-tool
================
Is a command line utility, probably written in C which should be used
to update/modify the registry.
Example use cases, installing a new typelib
gir-registry-tool --install Gtk /usr/lib/glib/introspection/gtk.typelib 2.12.0
gir-registry-tool --uninstall Gtk /usr/lib/glib/introspection/gtk.typelib 2.12.0
It's the registry tools responsibility to sort the disk format.
API
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libgirepository should provide an api:
gi_locale_typelib (const gchar *name, const gchar * version);
version should NULL, if so it should pick the first one in the on-disk registry.
libgirepository should mmap the registry and read it when that API is called
the first time.
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