On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, David Glasser <glasser_at_davidglasser.net>
wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:26 AM, David James <james_at_cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:01 AM, John Szakmeister <john_at_szakmeister.net>
> wrote:
> >> Hi! I assume that this email is reaching the same David James that is
> >> part of the Subversion project. I just wanted to ping you about the
> >> status of ctypesgen... and for that matter, csvn. It appears
> >> development has stalled (I'm not complaining... I certainly understand
> >> having demands for your time). I didn't know if this was a sign of
> >> "it's ready for prime time" or if you (and others) just didn't have
> >> the energy to finish it.
> >>
> >> I'd be interested in helping... I don't like SWIG much, and ctypes is
> >> a pain for complex APIs without something to help it. :-) BTW, is
> >> there a group that I should be posting this on? I didn't see anything
> >> on the Google Code page.
> >
> > Hi John,
> >
> > That's great news! We could certainly use the help.
> >
> > Right now, the ctypes python bindings are in pretty good shape. The
> > low level bindings (which are similar to the SWIG bindings) are
> > complete and work really reliably and well.
> >
> > We also have higher level python wrappers, which make it really easy
> > to use the python bindings.
> >
> > The biggest work we need to do is figure out how to build the ctypes
> > bindings on Windows. It may be possible to just build the ctypes
> > python wrapper on Linux and copy it over to Windows and make a few
> > changes and it will work. This is because we are generating pure
> > Python bindings so in theory they could be platform independent. Note
> > that you will need Subversion as a DLL to use them in ctypes on
> > Windows, and that is a new feature in Subversion 1.5.
> >
> > Currently the ctypes python bindings are on a branch and working
> > pretty well, but I'm not sure about where to go from here.
> >
> > I see two options:
> > 1) Merge the ctypes Python bindings to trunk and integrate them with
> > the Subversion build system
> > 2) Launch ctypes bindings as a separate project.
> >
> > Where do you think we should go from here?
>
> I think we should ship the low-level, automatically-generated ctypes
> bindings with Subversion starting with 1.6, and launch the high-level
> more usable library built on top of that as a separate project.
+1. I think that getting the full ctypes version into trunk will meet with
some resistance, but this approach gets all the code out there and gets the
most important part into trunk.
Hopefully I'll have time to start coding again, getting my Master's
seriously sidetracked development. Once I get set up at my new job I'll
hopefully have a life again, and I can track down the few remaining issues.
Sage
>
> That way, high-level API design can be decoupled from Subversion's
> release cycle, whereas the completely automated
> make-the-bindings-match-C step can guarantee that you always have
> immediate access to all new APIs.
>
> --dave
>
>
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