On 24-jun-2005, at 0:52, has wrote:
Bob wrote:Is there a way I can contribute (using some of the timeslots I now try to put aside for Boost and the unreasonable number ofthings I intend to do)?Currently, all of the wrapped Carbon functionality is done with an ancient, fragile and undocumented parser/generator called bgen, which parses out Universal Headers and spits out potentially working Python bindings. In order to make a useful contribution to those modules, you'd have to learn it, which really isn't worth doing. For your own purposes you could hack the C code it spits out directly, but unless it's done with bgen, it's not going to end up in Python CVS.I blame Joseph Heller myself.
Why? AFAIK he has nothing to do with the mess that's called bgen ;-). IIRC a little know programmer named Guido wrote that code.
BTW. I agree with Bob's classification of bgen, and would like to add that it is not only undocumented but also hard to understand without documention.
Ronald
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