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Re: Bindings use is *painful*

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:31:28 +0530

Hi,

Stefan Sperling writes:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 03:08:39PM +0000, Hyrum K Wright wrote:
> This is because the bindings are generated with SWIG.
> We cannot really fix this without using a different approach.
>
> We could improve the documentation. An introductory document that
> explains how to apply the C API docs to the python bindings would
> be helpful. Maybe someone with some experience in using the python
> bindings could write something like this?
>
> Also, there's an API built on top of the bindings that is easier to use
> and has better documentation: http://pysvn.tigris.org/

Does it make sense to write bindings ground up by hand and hand-craft
a nice API? Since the C API is guaranteed to be relatively stable and
backward compatible, maintainability shouldn't be much of an
issue. Plus, it'll probably make a good GSoC project.

-- Ram
Received on 2011-02-16 17:01:30 CET

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