Update on PyKF5 bindings

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2016, Stephen Kelly wrote:

> [I wrote this yesterday but just realized it didn't get delivered]
> 
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> 
> > I'm wondering what the status is of this project... 
> 
> Hi Boud,
> 
> I've been busy moving from Berlin back to Dublin, which I just did last 
> weekend. Things were blocked on me for some months.
> 
> I've just now pushed the first iteration of the bindings to ECM and a use 
> of 
> the generator to KItemModels.

Oh, cool! I will check out both. What I'm not clear on, though is, the last
part -- is the generator that uses python-clang still in shaheed's branch
in PyKDE5? Or somewhere else?

> 
> Next steps are 
> 
> 1) Figure out any issues with those regarding CI, packaging etc.
> 2) Add bindings for other simple libraries
> 3) Extend the features of the binding generator
> 4) Add bindings for other libraries which need advanced features
> 5) GOTO step 3
> 
> There are already features which we worked on some months ago which I held 
> back from the generator for now, so that there is something easy to debug 
> for step 1.
> 
> > I've spend the past
> > week defining Krita's bindings wrapper library, and then spent some time
> > exposing it to Python. I've first used Python to wrap and expose
> > properties and slots dynamically
> > (https://phabricator.kde.org/diffusion/KRITA/browse/rempt%252FT1625-python-scripting/plugins/extensions/pykrita/plugin/krita/mikro.py),
> > but I'm also considering doing full sip-based bindings.
> > 
> > Writing those by hand is going to be a chore, so it would be nice if the
> > autogeneration tool works. This is the bindings library:
> > 
> > https://phabricator.kde.org/diffusion/KRITA/browse/rempt%252FT1625-python-scripting/plugins/extensions/pykrita/libkis/
> > 
> > (Very rough, most things aren't implemented yet, and I generated it from a
> > dumb definition file.)
> 
> I haven't had a look yet. Hopefully the generator will be usable for those 
> kinds of things.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve.
> 

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