[Geany-devel] How is src/interface.c generated?

[Lex Trotman]

On 9 September 2010 11:15, Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le 09/09/2010 03:02, Erik de Castro Lopo a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Could someone clue me in as to how the src/interface.c file is
>> generated?
> AFAIK it is generated by Glade 2.x; but I'd think it's mentioned in the
> HACKING file, isn't it?
>
>> Since its autogenerated, wouldn't it be a good idea to remove it
>> from the repo? Obviously, it should be shipped in the source code
>> tarball, but it is reasonable to expect that anyone working from
>> SVN have whatever tool is required to generate that file.
> Since Glade 2.x doesn't really exist anymore (its out-of-date and
> couldn't even be compiled with recent GTK version [1]), I don't think it
> is reasonable to think that every possible contributor have it.
> So I think keeping it in the repository is a good thing.
>
> That said, I think it'd be good to find a legacy-free way to generate
> this file -- but I don't know if a C source generator already exists for
> Glade 3.x/and or GtkBuilder...

Glade 3 doesn't support code generation, it only supports using XML
descriptions via libglade or gtkbuilder.

Cheers
Lex

>
> Regards,
> Colomban
>
> [1] at least it wasn't possible without fixing an issue in GTK 2.20, see
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618639
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