Projects/GObjectIntrospection/OldTasklist

Old Tasklist

Please refer to bugzilla for an updated one.

Task	Owner	Status
GIR XML
Define the new Metadata format	JohanDahlin	Mostly done
Document the GIR format	-	-
XML validation tests	-	-
Typelib format
Add attributes to connect signals to their default handlers and wrappers to their vfuncs	-	-
Add binary hash to lookup directory entries	-	-
Add a way to specify default values	-	-
Add a way to mark init functions like gtk_init	-	-
API
Add thorough error checking to GIRepository API	-	-
More complete invocation tests	-	-
Fix extra indirection for out parameters in invoke	-	-
Scanner
Virtual-methods and callbacks are wrong	-	-
GIR-Repository
Annotate element type of lists	-	-
Mark symbols as deprecated	-	-

Repository
- Reconsider the current clunky API, maybe an iterator approach is better
- Use hashes?
- Think about a system-wide repository mapping namespace ids to libraries/metadata files
- Maybe allow populating repositories at runtime
- Maybe support invocation of functions using closures (maybe even GClosure) instead of only libffi, so that functions can be implemented in languages other than C. This would require populating the repository with new classes/methods at run-time.
Some way of saying what allocator is used for transfer parameters?
- - maybe just set an allocator per module for transfer-out - caller has to use module allocator for transfer-in?
For more complicated reference types, (pointer to multidimensional array of int pointers) the current Blob structure does not seem sufficient or optimal, how could this be reworked?
What did Mattias mean by "Sort arrays so that we can use bsearch for lookup"?