[Kde-bindings] Twine2 (PyKDE* code generation tool) Naming

[Simon Edwards]

On 2015-04-19 22:07, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> I do have some additional ideas in terms of making is easier to use, 
> but the
> biggest thing that would make it easier to use is if it could actually
> successfully parse everything.

This is just a general comment about how to approach this task. When it 
comes the parsing of C++ headers you will need to pick your fights 
carefully. C++ is so big and has so many special constructions that it 
isn't an economical use of time to try to support everything. If you hit 
a .h file which chokes the parser, you need to have a look at what is 
inside it and whether it makes sense to pursue it. It might not even 
have stuff which is relevant to Python, in which case you can skip it. 
It might be full of templates which you can't directly map to Python, in 
which case you may have to skip it and write some custom binding code in 
C++ for SIP.

It is par for the course that something new comes along every 6 months 
which the parse can't handle. What twine2 does is also unlike a 
compiler. It tries to parse C++ and handle preprocessor macros etc at 
the same time. A C++ compiler has a two step parser, preprocessor then 
C++ parsing.

Also, it is possible to turn on tracing the parser by passing in some 
debug=3 or something option. The docs for the parser library twine2 
should say exactly what to do.

cheers,

-- 
Simon Edwards
simon at simonzone.com
Nijmegen, The Netherlands