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

[Shaheed Haque]

Taking what Simon said to heart, perhaps the first thing might be to try to
tweak things so that errors are not fatal to the whole run.

(I know error recovery is not always the easiest of things in parsers but
it would at least result in something rather than nothing).
On 21 Apr 2015 12:38, "Scott Kitterman" <kde at kitterman.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 09:56:28 AM Simon Edwards wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks.  I appreciate the advice.  To be clear, by everything, I meant
> everything in Kf5, not the universe of C++.
>
> Scott K
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