libsoy migration milestone

After a great deal of time (I'd rather not admit how long) we've finally managed to link the new libsoy code in with Python.

This afternoon (around 4:30) the following code opened a PySoy window on the screen:

arc@khonsu ~/work/pysoy $ python3
Python 3.1.3 (r313:86834, Dec  5 2010, 09:55:24) 
[GCC 4.5.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import soy.widgets
>>> w = soy.widgets.Window()
>>> 
(soy:16042): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_set_title: assertion `title != NULL' failed
IRQ's not enabled, falling back to busy waits: 2 0
OpenGL version 2.1 Mesa 7.10
GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object: Yes

While incomplete and, well, its only a window, this is the first time we've gotten the two pieces to work together. David Czech and I have spent the rest of the evening fixing both build systems (libsoy and PySoy) and getting ready to copy the window binding code for the rest of the engine.

Our largest failure in this has been diverting so much energy into GObject Introspection. While its a really great idea and I'd love to see it evolve, its still so deep alpha that I can't imagine anyone but Gnome developers getting much practical use out of it. I would like to finish up GTypes at some point, but either the XML format for .gir or any level of documentation on typelib needs to be written first. I've wasted far too much time already trying to reverse engineer these from examples and their source that should have been put into my own projects.