Update on PyKF5 bindings

[Shaheed Haque]

At this point, now that Steve's integration with cmake is emerging into the
sunlight, my branches in kdebindings and github should be considered as of
academic interest only.

As time permits, I plan to focus on wherever the integration work lands.

On 7 Nov 2016 10:33 a.m., "Boudewijn Rempt" <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>
> --
> Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.krita.org, http://www.valdyas.org
>
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