improve boxed types support
Submitted by Yeti
Link to original bug (#605025)
Description
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Boxed types are inspectable enough to appear as derived from GBoxed in the hierarchy so they should be there.
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The current handling of MY_TYPE_FOO and my_foo_get_type() for boxed types is to dump them both in the section file with --rebuild-sections and to let people do anything if they don't rebuild sections. This means e.g in GLib MY_TYPE_FOO tends to be listed, wheres Gtk+ docs do not indicate whether a plain old data type is available as boxed or not.
MY_TYPE_FOO and my_foo_get_type() for boxed types probably should be put to <SUBSECTION Standard> when generating the section file.
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Once they are excluded it would be nice to insert `MyFoo implements/is derived from/provides/is available as/... GBoxed' somewhere automatically. Or added small hierarchy GBoxed -> MyFoo as is done for objects. Not sure how to implement either.
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Boxed types can be defined in different place than the original type. E.g. G_TYPE_HASH_TABLE is defined in gobject because, obviously, it cannot go into glib. Not sure what to do in this case.
Version: 1.13