[Kde-bindings] Progress report on Py*5 binding generation

[Shaheed Haque]

That is really helpful...and much appreciated. I will switch to this
just as soon as I have solved an annoying issue with %Imports.

On 16 April 2016 at 21:28, Scott Kitterman <kde at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, April 16, 2016 03:45:47 PM Shaheed Haque wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is a quick update on the Py*5 bindings generation attempt, and
>> specifically on PyKF5. The binding generator with the PyKF5-specific
>> rules can now [1] generate a set of SIP files [2] which require just a
>> couple of simple hand edits [3] to process KDECoreAddons with no
>> syntax errors, but ending in a crash in the SIP 4.16.9 compiler.
>>
>> Now that might not seem very useful, but in fact, because of the
>> fanout involved, a big chunk of KF5 has been syntax checked.
>> Obviously, there could be more errors hiding behind the crash, or in
>> parts of KF5 not yet covered by the fanout, but this does feel like a
>> significant milestone.
>>
>> The next steps are to pursue the crash, the rest of the fanout, also
>> automate the hand edits and...eventually get some bindings to
>> compile/load/work.
>>
>> At any rate, once I get a little further, I plan to propose a merge to
>> master (in pykde5.git). As always, help and comments welcome!
>
> Thanks for your continued work on this.  I've noticed that you are using the
> Sip4 version supplied with Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty).  Since I thought it might
> ease your work and aid your dialogue with Sip4 upstream, I did a backport of
> Sip 4.18 (the current release) to Trusty in my PPA [1].  You might be better
> off using it for your efforts as there may be problems you are experiencing that
> have already been resolved.
>
> Scott K
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~kitterman/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages
>
> P.S. Dropped kde-core-devel since this is really just about bindings.
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