Re: lgi reviews

[Laurent Faillie <l_faillie@...>]

Hi,

I totally second Nils point of view.

In addition, lgi is a glue but as the dirty work is done by libraries.
As the link is done using introspection, consequently
improvement/changes are done at libraries level only. More, this system
allow to support new libraries w/o impacting lgi itself.

So the risk you mentioned is very low : even if LGI developers give up,
it will not impact the future of your application.

Bye

Laurent

Le 04/01/2013 21:17, Nils Nordman a écrit :
> Hi Patrick,
>
> for what it's worth I've been using lgi for my current project, and
> have been enjoying it. It has good coverage of not only Gtk but all
> the libraries from the g*-stack, such as gio, glib, etc. The developer
> has been quick with feedback with the problems I've encountered. These
> problems by the way have mostly stemmed from the lack of proper
> library reflection information from upstream (i.e. missing annotations
> from the Gtk developers, et al), and not lgi per se. I saw some other
> thread discussing cross platform GUI development, and I don't know
> whether lgi would be a viable option for say Windows or OSX as I've so
> far only used it with Linux. But apart from that I encourage you to
> try it out.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nils
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
>> I want to use Lua for GUI programming but it's scary to know what project to
>> use as a foundation, I am going nowhere.
> [..]
>