[OE-core] gobject introspection to oe-core

[Alexander Kanavin]

Hello,

I'm looking into the possibility of adding gobject introspection support 
directly to oe-core for Yocto 2.1 release (Spring 2016). This work would 
of course be based on meta-gir, but with the mandatory goal of producing 
patches of sufficient quality that can be sent upstream.

I know the upstream tarball is a mess that mashes together several 
different things and was never designed for cross-compiling; and 
meta-gir is also difficult to understand: autotools-based build files 
are patched using undocumented patchfiles, then again patched from the 
recipe using sed, with no comments anywhere - all that needs to be sorted.

What's your take on this? Is it realistic? Would you be able to help out?

Regards,
Alexander