[Kde-bindings] SMOKEv4 proposals

[Arno Rehn]

On 09/09/12 05:55, Richard Dale wrote:
> On 09/08/2012 11:25 PM, Arno Rehn wrote:
>>
>> (5) Add more meta information to smoke. We've already discussed adding
>>     method argument names, which sounds like a good idea and shouldn't
>>     weigh too much with proper string interning.
>>     We should also consider having only one 'string table' in the smoke
>>     lib, which could save some more bytes (e.g. many classnames will be
>>     identical to the constructor names, some argument names are probably
>>     identical to some method names, etc..).
>>     It would be greate if we can come up with something that lets us
>>     add more meta-information later without breaking BC again. Adding
>>     traditional virtual methods to the 'Smoke' class might not be such
>>     good idea because it would break C compatibility, but maybe some
>>     'manual' offset table with pointers to structs/funcs could be used.
>>
>> Can you think of anything else?
> It would be nice to have meta data about object ownership, so that the 
> bindings would know after you call QObject::setParent() the parent 
> QObject will delete the child and so on. Phil Thompson suggested that we 
> could use the meta data from PyQt for this as I don't think it can be 
> generated automatically and it would save a lot of work. I think other 
> existing bindings already have this data in various forms too. But maybe 
> we could convert it to some kind of XML format that looks similar to the 
> current smokegen metadata.
Ah yes. I believe something like this for the QGraphics* stuff would
also be good. Do you know where to look for the data? Looks like it
isn't in the release tarballs of PyQt.

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Arno Rehn