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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ GIR XML format
There's an XML format called GIR used by GObjectIntrospection.
The purpose of it is to provide a common structure to access the complete
available API that a library or other unit of code exports.
-It is meant to be language agnostic using namespaces to separate
+It is meant to be language agnostic using namespaces to separate
core, language or library specific functionality.
There are currently only C based tools that work on the format, but it's
meant to be usable to use in other situations, for instance to/from another
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ Tools
=====
Three tools are shipped with GObject Introspection:
-- g-ir-compile, a typelib compiler. It converts one or more GIR files
- into one or more typelib blobs. It can either emit the raw typelib
- blob or C code (--code).
+- g-ir-compile, a typelib compiler. It converts one or more GIR files
+ into one or more typelib blobs. It can either emit the raw typelib
+ blob or C code (--code).
- g-ir-generate, an GIR generator, using the repository API. It generates
GIR files from binary typelib which can be in a shared object, or a raw
- typelib blob.
+ typelib blob.
- g-ir-scanner, a tool which generates GIR XML files by parsing headers
and introspecting GObject based libraries.
@@ -42,17 +42,17 @@ API library
===========
There's also a C based library called libgirepository which provides
-an API to access to the typelib metadata. It also contains an API to
-invoke functions, given the function info object. The implementation is
-based on libffi (3.0 or higher of libffi required, can be found at
+an API to access to the typelib metadata. It also contains an API to
+invoke functions, given the function info object. The implementation is
+based on libffi (3.0 or higher of libffi required, can be found at
http://sourceware.org/libffi).
There are a number of GIR test files in tests/, and a script to do
roundtrip tests (GIR -> typelib -> GIR).
Helping out
-===========
-The introspection framework needs a lot more work, see TODO.
+===========
+The introspection framework needs a lot more work, see TODO.
Homepage
========