Add perl bindings

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Please add perl bindings.

Shutter is written in perl and they can't create appindicator cause there are no perl bindings.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Is there Perl support for GObject Introspection? We're planning on supporting that more and more.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

On 21 May 2010 16:56, Ted Gould <email address hidden> wrote:
> Is there Perl support for GObject Introspection?  We're planning on
> supporting that more and more.
>

http://live.gnome.org/GTK2-Perl/Introspection

[Ted Gould (ted)]

On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 22:33 +0000, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> On 21 May 2010 16:56, Ted Gould <email address hidden> wrote:
> > Is there Perl support for GObject Introspection? We're planning on
> > supporting that more and more.
> >
>
> http://live.gnome.org/GTK2-Perl/Introspection

Cool. Can someone test the current typelib files and see if they work?
Perhaps a small helper "library" that loads introspection?

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

I'd like to provide a wrapper library but I am a bit confused because of the naming scheme and so on.

I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and I've the following typelib files install:
Indicate-0.2.typelib
Indicate-Gtk-0.2.typelib
Dbusmenu-Glib-0.2.typelib

Here is a nice example of Introspection with gtk2-perl: http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib-IO/tree/lib/Glib/IO.pm

Which of the above typelib files has to be used to write a working wrapper library? That are my first steps with introspection so please don't blame me if the questions are stupid.

Could you please shed light on this?

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

As stated by Torsten Schoenfeld via gtk-perl-list:

"The initial release of Glib::Object::Introspection is now available.

As a tarball:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/Glib-Object-Introspection-0.001.tar.gz

or from git:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib-Object-Introspection/tag/?id=rel-0-00-1

Glib::Object::Introspection uses the gobject-introspection and libffi
projects to dynamically create Perl bindings for a wide variety of
libraries. Examples include gtk+, webkit, libsoup and many more."

Any chance to get this into Ubuntu's repositories any time soon?

[Hans Oesterholt (0k-hans-f8)]

I've created an AppIndicator binding for perl.
See https://launchpad.net/~0k-hans-f8/+archive/ppa/+packages (libgtk2-appindicator-perl)
or http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Gtk2%3A%3AAppIndicator

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Nice, thanks. I will have a look at it tomorrow. What happens if
libappindicator is not available ( e.g. on other platforms than
Ubuntu)?

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

Just noticed this bug. FYI: I'm working on packaging libgtk2-appindicator-perl for Ubuntu. You can follow the process in bug #1032390.

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Great, thanks for your work.