[PyKDE] Any tools to generate sip files?

[Vio]

  On conversion tools topic, I am also writing a tool to convert more 
broadly cpp -> pyqt/pykde (don't ask me why I need that :). Reading your 
post, the thought occured that I may be reinventing the wheel right now. 
Hence, anybody aware if such a cpp2py tool already exists?

Secondly, I'd also like to have a look at your 'h2sip' tool, if posible.

Cheers,
Vio


Jim Bublitz wrote:

>On 13-Mar-03 Hubbard, Dwight wrote:
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>>I've been looking at trying to generate python bindings for the
>>libmyth
>>library which is part of the mythtv pvr project (
>>http://www.mythtv.org)
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>>I was wondering if there where any tools to automate the
>>generation of the .sip files from the .h files instead of doing
>>it manually?
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>Almost.
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>I have a tool in development that does automatic h->sip conversion,
>as well has generating the build scripts and writing some of the
>docs. I'm using it to generate the next PyKDE version and it's
>essentially complete enough to do that (ignoring the occasional bug
>that still pops up now and then). I haven't tried it on anything
>except PyKDE, so I'm sure there'll be problems with it, particularly
>in generating the build stuff.
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>I took a quick look at the libmyth sources and only see one problem
>- one of the h files has a "using" statement, which is one of the
>few things I'm not planning on supporting. You'd have to add
>explicit scoping manually to the variables covered by that
>statement. I didn't see any place where you'd need to hand write
>any C++ code for sip, but I only took a quick look. I also didn't
>check to see what beyond the libmyth h files you'd need sip files
>for. If libmyth references objects in other libs, you'd need to
>bind those too or else hide the references somehow (Qt isn't a
>problem however).
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>The other nice feature of this tool and sip is that they handle
>versioning - you can build a new set of sip files from the previous
>version's sip files and the new h files. It looks like this project
>will be changing fairly rapidly at the moment.
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>If you have a strong urge to be a guinea pig for undocumented and
>probably somewhat buggy incomplete software, I can send you a
>tarball (it's all in Python). Basically all you should need to do is
>create a project file (assuming it works). You'd also need Python
>2.2.2, sip 3.5 and PyQt 3.5 (since libmyth is Qt based). This is
>far from releaseable, but works pretty well. If it works, you'd
>have sip files in about 20 seconds (all of PyKDE takes about 3 1/2
>minutes). There's a strong chance this will be completely useless
>to you.
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>Otherwise, I can take a look at it myself when I get some time.
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>Jim
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