On Monday, December 10, 2012 05:24:18 PM Henry Gomersall wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 11:38 -0500, Stephan Deibel wrote: > > Henry Gomersall wrote: > > > I was thinking about thistoday (triggered by the original email!). > > > > > > How realistic is it to create an API-extractor definition -> Cython > > > tool, combined with the (possibly more developed) pxd generation tool: > > > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/redbrain1123/ > > > 28002 > > > > > > (which seemingly is in an alpha state) > > > > > > Is there more to creating QT bindings than that? How much effort would > > > that be? > > > > > > It strikes me that Cython solves many of the difficult problems already, > > > and it supports C++ pretty well now. > > > > The above is a SoC project which means it's just been developed by a > > student and probably never used, so it would undoubtedly require some > > work. Otherwise it may not be a bad approach. I don't know if the > > custom code and hints from PySide could be used with that. If not, it's > > really just a complete replacement of PySide, which is probably more > > work than is needed. > > Yeah, it still needs some work. The approach is very interesting, and > fills a missing hole in Cython. > > I suppose my point is that the entirety of Pyside should (in an ideal > world) be just a list of mappings from C++ types to Python types. The > heavy lifting should be left for a common tool. You're saying that is > where the bugs are? That's interesting and gives me much more of an > impetus to fix some (though on my one foray into such an attempt, I got > pretty lost pretty fast, and didn't manage to achieve anything useful - > it was far too muddy).
PySide has some unnecessary complications, the one that I remmenber now is the support for Python objects that inherits of two or more C++ objects, e.g. class Foo (QObject, QFoobar): ... This add a lot of complication in the implementation, some bizarre behaviors and almost nothing benefits.
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