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

[Richard Dale]

On Monday 01 February 2010 07:58:52 pm 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.
I guess that's why I originally suggested 'smokegen' or similar as it doesn't 
have any confusing 'K's or 'Q''s in it. Well alright it does have a little 'k' 
in the middle, but it doesn't shout 'K'ness at you..

Note that the 'brand' Smoke can mean anything we choose it to mean, and the 
things that the generator might generate in the future could be called 
'smoke_something' even if they weren't actually Smoke libraries. For example, 
it is most likely to be extended to generate documentation for the apis in the 
Smoke libraries based on the doc comments in the headers.

-- Richard