[Kde-bindings] Re: py(Qt|KDE) and KDE CVS

[Adriaan de Groot]

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On Sunday 21 March 2004 23:54, you wrote:
> Maybe the proposal sounded a tad "selfish"... I did wince too :}
> As has been said countless times about C++ apps, the CVS is not intended to
> provide visibility to individual projects.

Well, let's chalk it down to unfamiliarity and miscommunication, then. I 
suppose I should have checked out kdebindings before asking peculiar 
questions. We all live in our little corners of the world - I, for one, had 
never even _heard_ of working bindings for anything before I heard the python 
stuff was OK, at FOSDEM. So yeah, a little more visibility for the module as 
a whole would be a good thing.


> The only thing we can do is clean up/reorganise the existing module if
> needed, to make it easier to grasp for packagers, as Richard correctly
> pointed out.

It's not packaged in my neck of the woods, but it's good to hear that it just 
works and ought to be packaged. I'll give someone a poke with a ruby-tipped 
stick.

> > "Since kdebindings contains _tools_ to create bindings (doesn't it,
> > mostly?) and not the bindings themselves,
>
> Where did you get that impression?
> It contains bindings themselves of course.

Lack of research. (BTW, kdebindings is some 84M of source, which makes it 
bigger than libs, base, or pim - that's pretty big). (The README needs 
updating, in any case).

> Not really... when the bindings aren't dynamically generated, they are
> already stored in kdebindings (objective c, kjsembed, ...).
> For those that use the Smoke library, the language-dependant part is either
> in kdebindings (Ruby, C#, maybe Java already?) or not in KDE CVS at all
> (Perl), and libsmoke itself is autogenerated at ./configure time.

OK, and that finally answers definitively where the damn python stuff belongs, 
and I frankly hope never to hear about it again (except when I return to add 
an embedded python interpreter to my C++ apps).

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