[Kde-bindings] Re: KConfigXT compiler for Python

[Robert Riemann]

Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2010, 08:58:46 schrieb Richard Dale:
> On Saturday, October 30, 2010 10:52:55 pm Dennis Malcorps wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > I just wanted to say that I am still alive and working on
> > pykconfigcompiler. University kept me busy the last 2.5 month, but I
> > found some spare time to start hacking again. Unfortunately I won't have
> > much free time in the next weeks/months, so progress is going to be
> > slow.
> > 
> > On Sunday, August 15, 2010 03:55:56 pm Simon Edwards wrote:
> > > On a technical note, I don't know much about the kconfig stuff, but is
> > > it possible to read kcfgc files directly at runtime and produce the GUI
> > > on the fly without having to generate .py files at build time?
> > 
> > Well, kconfig (to be more precise: a subclass of kconfigSkeleton) doesn't
> > produce a GUI, it is just a class that reads and writes configuration
> > values to and from a given file. (like qsettings on steroids). It works
> > quiet nice together with a kconfigdialog, so pykconfigcompiler, just like
> > kconfigcompiler (c++) and rbkonficcompiler (ruby), generates that
> > kconfigskeleton subclass from an xml file and an optional ini file.
> > And to answer the actual question: Yes, this can be done at runtime :)
> > 
> > Am Sonntag 15 August 2010, 17:31:56 schrieb Richard Dale:
> > > In my opinion we shouldn't need to have entirely seperate Ruby or
> > > Python tools to handle the KConfigXT classes, [...] I'm just slightly
> > > sad that we
> > 
> > may end up with
> > 
> > > completely different tools for each bindings language, instead of a
> > > relatively simple way of changing the way the standard kconfigcompiler
> > > generates code.
> > 
> > But isn't this the same situation for loading ui files? There is uic,
> > pyuic, rbuic, which create code from an xml file, which can be done at
> > runtime in python and ruby.
> > Just as I don't want to write my ui class manually I don't want to write
> > my kconfig class manually. Yeah, I'm lazy, I know^^
> 
> Yes, maybe you're right. Someone did post a patch on kde-core-devel to add
> ruby support to the standard kconfigxt compiler, but i didn't look at the
> code. I find the coding style of the compiler pretty unreadable (indents
> at 2 spaces + curly braces on seperate lines) and couldn't help maintain
> the ruby support in it. So unless we had more than one bindings language
> in it, I think it would be more trouble than it's worth.

I'm still waiting for a working rubykconfig solution. I never got my attempt 
working nor did i found a working example in the www.

Best regards,
Robert

> 
> -- Richard
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