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

[Shaheed Haque]

BTW, I just went looking for
https://github.com/steveire/extra-cmake-modules/commits/generate-python-bindings,
but I guess I should be looking here at
https://github.com/steveire/frameworks-bindings instead, right?

On 1 May 2016 at 11:47, Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shaheed Haque wrote:
>
> > Steve,
> >
> > I've still not yet had a chance to catch up with all your good works, but
> > I have just pushed what I consider usable %MethodCode injection [1]. This
> > includes a naive forward port of the PyKDE4 %MethodCode fragments. The
> > documentation is updated too. With luck this should provide a good
> > template for other forms of code injection. %TypeCode is the obvious next
> > target, and with that in place, I think we'll have all the logic in place
> > to support most anything PyKDE4 could do but in a sustainable manner.
>
> Sounds great!
>
> >
> > I'm still in a bit of a crunch time here for the next few weeks, but will
> > try to make time to look at your fork and maybe %TypeCode.
>
> Cool. I don't think there's generally urgency - there has not been KF5
> bindings for years (and it surprised me to learn that actually). However,
> collaborating in one repo and one way forward would be better than two.
>
> > FWIW, the naive forward port of the PyKDE4 fragments is more or less a
> > simple import of the original code, and this clearly does not apply in
> > many cases. What is there is intended more as a demonstration of the
> > techniques of using either fixed strings, or functions to generate the
> > custom code needed.
>
> Cool. I saw things related to KConfigSkeleton and KLocalizedString which
> are
> presumably useful to make real bindings. So far, I've just discarded those
> in the bindings I've made.
>
> I also filed
>
>  https://phabricator.kde.org/T2389
>
> for tracking by the CI team.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve.
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