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Looking at the change log, I see they generate a lot of code with a custom tool called "gir": https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir Is i
by josteink 9y ago
Looking at the change log, I see they generate a lot of code with a custom tool called "gir":
https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir
Is it an acronym for something, or is just someone on the team a closet Invader Zim fan? :)
- IronBacon 9y agoWithout looking at the code, considering we are talking about GTK, I would guess it's related to "GObject Introspection".
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- gizmo686 9y agoSee https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection GIR seems to be the XML format containing GObject introspection data. For what it is worth, the equivelent haskell library (haskell-gi) is composed of two source code directories: GIR and CodeGen. [0] [0] https://github.com/haskell-gi/haskell-gi/tree/master/lib/Data/GI https://github.com/haskell-gi/haskell-gi/tree/master/lib/Dat...