On Jun 24, 2005, at 5:41 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 24-jun-2005, at 0:52, has wrote: > > >> Bob wrote: >> >> >> >>>> Is there a way I can contribute (using some of the time >>>> slots I now try to put aside for Boost and the unreasonable >>>> number of >>>> things 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.
It was a relatively esoteric reference; Joseph Heller is the author of Catch-22. Basically, he meant that neither choice is good (and I agree). -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
