Eventually, we want to move to using `GType` directly for everything,
since `GIBaseInfo` and its subclasses are all using `GTypeInstance`.
However, that requires quite a lot of changes and we’re about to hit the
API freeze.
So do the smallest set of changes possible to remove `GIInfoType` and
related functions from the public API, which gives us freedom to make
more changes later without breaking API.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
It’s actually a factory method rather than a constructor, since
`GIBaseInfo` is abstract, but despite that, changing the name so it sits
inside the `GIBaseInfo` class makes sense. There is no `GIInfo` type.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Since `GITypelib` is exposed in the public libgirepository API, it needs
to be a boxed type. So we either need to add a `copy` method to mirror
the existing `free` method, or switch to refcounting. The latter option
seems better, since a `GITypelib` contains internal state about open
`GModule`s and the semantics for copying that would be potentially
complex.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
This makes them consistent with the other getter methods in
`GIRepository` which return lists/arrays. It’s useful to return the
length, as that means the caller doesn’t have to work it out by
iterating over the entire array.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Otherwise we would generate a multiple-inclusion guard of the
form `#ifndef __STDOUT__ ...`, which can only work for one D-Bus
interface per translation unit.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
If we're writing the body to standard output, we cannot know what the
filename of the corresponding header is going to be, but it seems
vanishingly unlikely that it will be either `stdout.h` (which we would
traditionally have generated) or `-.h` (which we would have generated
since !3886).
This makes some of the output snippets sufficiently short that black(1)
requires that they are folded into a single line.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Otherwise there’s no obvious suitable return value to return when the
union is *not* discriminated.
This is an API break, but libgirepository has not been in a stable
release yet, so that’s fine.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
Fix the declaration and documentation of
`gi_object_info_find_method_using_interfaces()` and
`gi_object_info_find_vfunc_using_interfaces()`. The documentation was
wrong when I wrote it: the value returned is the object or interface
which declares the method or vfunc, not the one which implements it.
The returned declarer info may be a `GIObjectInfo` or a
`GIInterfaceInfo`. Since those two types have no subtype relation
between them, the return type has to be changed to `GIBaseInfo`. Using
`GIObjectInfo` would have been fine in girepository-1.0 because all
`*Info` types were aliases of each other — but since the move to
`GTypeInstance` this is no longer true.
A unit test will be in the following commit.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Fixes: #3246
This covers all the API changes from girepository-1.0 to
girepository-2.0 so far.
It was generated by manually looking through the changes in `git diff
af36393e6.. -- girepository/*.h`.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3155
This might help increase visibility of Philip's useful GMainContext
tutorial. Although the GMainContext documentation is fairly good, it's
also pretty intimidating. The tutorial is very useful and provides
guidance that we can't fit directly into the documentation, so reference
it.
Now that the reference documentation uses gi-docgen, it's more
troublesome to generate in less standard build scenarios like
cross-compiling.
In distributions like Debian, reference documentation is generally
packaged separately (in libglib2.0-doc in Debian's case), but man pages
are generally packaged alongside the executables themselves (in the
libglib2.0-bin and libglib2.0-dev-bin packages, in Debian's case). We
can exclude the reference documentation when cross-compiling, but ideally
we would like the man pages to still be built, so that a cross-compiled
libglib2.0-bin or libglib2.0-dev-bin package has the same content as a
native build.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
They are now installed to (e.g.)
`${prefix}/share/doc/glib-2.0/{glib,gmodule,gobject,gio}/index.html`.
We might want to drop one level of nesting out of that, but for the
moment I thought I’d keep it in so we can disambiguate by installed
major version.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
So they are consistent with the way we’re building man pages in other
projects, and because some people are allergic to XML.
This changes the build-time dependencies from `xsltproc` to `rst2man`,
and also takes the opportunity to change the `-Dman` Meson option from a
boolean to a feature (so you should use `-Dman-pages={enabled,disabled}`
now, rather than `-Dman={true,false}`).
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Because the documentation is no longer built using gtk-doc.
Keep the old option around, but deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
Point people to the official PCRE documentation instead, which is going
to be more up to date. This saves us periodically having to copy in and
reformat the PCRE documentation.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
We haven’t made any backwards-incompatible changes since GLib 2.2 in
2002. It’s probably not very useful to tell people about those any more.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
They were previously `xi:include`d into some of the GDBus documentation,
but since the GDBus documentation was ported to Markdown that’s no
longer possible, so the object manager example docs now serve no
purpose.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Helps: #3037
