[PyKDE] Playing with SIP...

[Greg Green]

Wilken,

Outstanding job!! I had to figure this out the hard way myself. But
didn't do the next step. Thanks!!

BTW. Definitely not off topic.

> Hi all,
> 
> I hope my issue is not too far off this lists main topic. At least
it
> doesn't have anything to do with Qt or KDE. I am rather looking at
SIP
> as a _very nice_ general purpose wrapper tool for c++ -> python (as
Phil
> already pointed out: similar to SWIG but more specialized and
efficient).
> 
> I do hope, there will be enough positive resonance and interest in
this
> community (and of course at Phil Thompson) to give SIP somehow more
focus
> and support. 
> 
> In this sense I offering to share my trials to understand and use
SIP:
> (Watch out: Since Qt is not my primary interest, its support is not
tested.)
> 
> - I completed the porting of the sip package to Windows (now
covering
>   not only siplib but also sip itself). 
>   I set up a Visual C (6.0) project with subprojects for sip,
siplib,
>   two trivial classes to test the wrapping with and one to actually
do
>   (and test) the wrapping.
> 
> - My first notes on SIP finally expressed as a docbook. I do hope,
this
>   will be useful as a starting point and initiate a more
comprehensive
>   documentation, than I'm able to deliver. 
> 
> I also made a few changes to the package to:
> - Get rid of some compiler complaints
> - Allow for C type comments too
> - Relax SIPs parser a bit (silently ignore non public enums and
class vars)
> 
> Cheers
> Wilken

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