2008/11/1 Alan Baljeu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/11/1 Greg Landrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <<< > My opinion is biased, of course, but I use PyBindGen, usually with the help > of pygccxml for automatic scanning. I recommend PyBindGen for people that > dislike the kind of C++ template abuse that boost.python does. Of course I > also recommend anyone starting with pybindgen to be aware of its > limitations, namely lack of support for multiple inheritance and C++ > exceptions. > >>> > > This is what attracts me to PyBindGen. I dislike "template abuse", and my > C++ doesn't use multiple inheritance or exceptions. Any other limitations I > should know?
See http://code.google.com/p/pybindgen/wiki/Features And also the open bug reports: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pybindgen/+bugs But even I don't know all the pybindgen limitations :P > > > <<< > pybindgen generated code also compiles fine with visual studio (or at least > the unit test suite does). You only need (py)gccxml for scanning code, not > for generating. And generated code does not require any library to compile. > And you can even skip (py)gccxml if you want API definitions "by hand", and > this way depend only on pybindgen and python for code generation. Finally, > pybindgen is a small pure python module of which a copy can easily be > included in the project itself ;-) > > http://pybindgen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/apidocs/index.html > >>> > So you use gccxml as well. Does it make a big diff? pybindgen has _one_ layer that uses gccxml for scanning, but it is optional; use it if you like, or don't. I think gccxml scanning is important for large APIs which have a tendency to change over time. If you have a small and mostly static API then it should be OK to just manually write the API definition by hand (in a Python-based IDL). Otherwise it becomes tedious to do it by hand. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit "The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert
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