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- GIR XML format
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- - Document the format better
- - Add attributes to connect signals to their default handlers
- and wrappers to their vfuncs
- - Add a way to specify default values
- - Add a way to mark init functions like gtk_init
- - For argument/return values etc, store only c:identifier in the
- <class/> definition. Requires a link to the references type in the
- Type node.
- - replace gidl/gdk-pixbuf.gidl with something generated from headers,
- verify all information is available, possible to write
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- Binary format
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- - Sort arrays so that we can use bsearch for lookup
- - Maybe add hashes to lookup interfaces and functions in interfaces
- - Add default values
- - Make annotations more flexible (and typed)
-
- Compiler
- --------
- - Cleanup, maybe turn the nodes in to objects to avoid the horrific
- type switches
- - Add thorough error checking
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- Repository
- ----------
- - Reconsider the current clunky API, maybe an iterator approach is better
- - Add thorough error checking
- - Use hashes
- - Maybe allow populating repositories at runtime
- - Think about a system-wide repository mapping namespace ids to
- libraries/metadata files
- - Fix extra indirection for out parameters in invoke
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- Scanner
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- - Property.readable/writable, GLibProperty.blurb/nick
- - Constants
- - Annotations in external files which is not source code
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- C API
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- - type SYMBOL is kind of inconvenient; would be nicer to go straight to
- boxed, etc.
- - no way to construct a boxed type
- - no way to access struct fields (should have a way to go field -> GArgument)
- - types namespaced GI, functions namespaced g_
- - no way to get GType given a GIRegisteredTypeInfo
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