[Kde-bindings] How to properly install new generator?

[Arno Rehn]

On Monday 01 February 2010 20:58:52 Ian Monroe wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Arno Rehn <arno at arnorehn.de> wrote:
> > On Monday 01 February 2010 20:22:10 Richard Dale wrote:
> >> On Monday 01 February 2010 07:04:11 pm Arno Rehn wrote:
> >> > On Monday 01 February 2010 12:45:09 Richard Dale wrote:
> >> > > On Friday 29 January 2010 10:52:19 pm Arno Rehn wrote:
> >> > > > On Friday 29 January 2010 23:43:12 Melton, Ryan wrote:
> >> > > > > After compiling the new kdebindings generator, what is the
> >> > > > > proper command or procedure to install it? Thanks,
> >> > > > > Ryan
> >> > > > 
> >> > > > It's not yet intended to be installed.
> >> > > 
> >> > > Well I think it's quite important that we install it for KDE 4.4
> >> > > because for KDE 4.5 we want to encourage everyone to create smoke
> >> > > libraries in their own KDE svn modules. If we don't install the
> >> > > generator that will make that plan more complicated.
> >> > > 
> >> > > If we want to install it I think it needs a more distinctive name
> >> > > that 'generator'. For example:
> >> > > 
> >> > > kgenerator
> >> > > smokegen
> >> > > smokegenerator
> >> > > smokeapigen
> >> > 
> >> > Maybe something like kwrappergenerator?
> >> 
> >> Well we've never used the word 'wrapper' in anything we've done before.
> >> Maybe 'kbindingsgenerator'.
> > 
> > Yes, kbindingsgenerator sounds like a good name to me.
> > 
> >> > I don't really want to have "smoke"
> >> > 
> >> >  in the name, but something more distinctive than only "generator".
> >> 
> >> I've no idea why you don't want to use the name 'smoke' as it's a pretty
> >> important part of the smoke language bindings. But as long as it ends up
> >> being installed so people will be able to widely use it, I think that is
> >> more important than the name.
> > 
> > Well, that's because the thing is designed to be able to do more than
> > just generate smoke libraries. Maybe I'm a bit pedantic here (since it's
> > current job is to only generate smoke), but as long as we have other
> > names that shouldn't be too much of a problem ;)
> 
> But it doesn't depend on KDE, only on Qt 4. So qbindingsgenerator
> would make more sense.
But it can also generate bindings for non-qt libs, i.e. Wt. Maybe only 
"bindingsgenerator"?

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Arno Rehn
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