[Kde-bindings] A new attempt on PyKDE5 binding generation

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dijous, 31 de març de 2016, a les 23:04:07 CEST, Shaheed Haque va escriure:
> Thanks for all the feedback. Here is what I am thinking:
> 
> - The basic tooling might as well keep the PyKDE5 name because the
> tool is intended to be used KDE-wide. And the repo name for the tool
> is pykde5. This should not be a problem because nobody outside dev
> should see this tool. (Plus, I have little enough time as it is, and I
> have no desire to waste it on admin changes to git).

There is nothing called KDE5, do not call it PyKDE5, doesn't matter that it is 
dev oriented, it's still a wrong name.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> - In pykde5.git, the /sip folder presently contains the few
> twine2-generated and (presumably) hand-tweaked SIP files that pre-date
> the current effort. I propose to create /sip/KF5 tree based on using
> the tool to generate the KF5 support. The SIP compiled results from
> this would presumably be packaged/branded "PyKF5" as suggested.
> 
> - Once I cleanly separate out the rules-engine and make the driver
> code a bit more generic, each non-KF5 (KDE) project that wants to
> build its own bindings could either add itself to /sip/<project> in
> pykde5.git, or consider pykde5.git as an input, and roll-its-own SIP
> structure in its repo.
> 
> Also, by way of an update, I'm making steady progress. From the set of
> files that libkf5.*-dev pulls down on Ubuntu wily, I get 1733 sip
> files with less than 200 parsing errors to work through.
> 
> On 29 March 2016 at 09:01, Luca Beltrame <lbeltrame at kde.org> wrote:
> > Il Sat, 26 Mar 2016 22:30:18 +0000, Shaheed Haque ha scritto:
> > 
> > Hey Shaheed,
> > 
> >> about 800 lines of Python code [2] which can already create 684 .sip
> >> files [3].
> > 
> > As someone who occasionally worked on PyKDE4 I can say this is nothing
> > short of awesome!
> > 
> >> whatever. If anybody can actually explain, that would be great. In any
> >> event, I am hopeful that the structure of the rules engine [4] will make
> > 
> > Given that documentation is non-existent, I would say go with your gut
> > feeling. We start from a clean slate, let's do these things "properly"
> > from the start.
> > 
> >> Anyway, comments - and help - welcome, especially on #1, #4 and #5 as I
> >> intend to focus on #2 and #3 first.
> > 
> > As others have mentioned, having a rename to PyKF5 (because, like the
> > original PyKDE4 focused on kdelibs, I would argue we'd target all the
> > Frameworks in the long run) would probably be warranted once things are up
> > to speed.
> > 
> > I wonder if we can get the CI system to test these things once they're
> > working, that would also help reduce regressions / breakages.
> > 
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