[PyKDE] Any tools to generate sip files?

[Frederick Polgardy Jr]

Well, whereas SIP looks at SIP files (a stone's throw from the C++ header 
file) and generates C++ bindings, I could imagine it wouldn't be 
*extremely* painful to write a utility like SIP to generate Boost code from 
the headers, or a slightly modified version thereof, instead.  Not saying 
I'm going to write it myself :), but the point was only that the limitation 
doesn't lie with Boost itself.

The bigger issue re: Qt/KDE is that I have no idea how you'd handle the 
signal/slot mechanism without having preknowledge about it, like SIP does.

Fred

On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:00 pm, Jim Bublitz wrote:
> I've looked at it (and argued with David Abrams on comp.lang.python
> a little) but never tried it. Boost has some advantages over sip,
> especially if you only want to bind a few functions, have a lot of
> templates, or like writing C++. The drawbacks (in the context of
> of a large project like PyKDE anyway) is that it requires a lot of
> handwritten code, more knowledge of what the code actually does,
> looks difficult to automate, and would be difficult to maintain over
> a number of versions (right now PyQt supports everything from Qt1.42
> onward, and PyKDE supports KDE 2.1.1 onward, each with a single
> file set). Can't say as far as performance, but it seems like Boost
> should be pretty fast and perhaps a little smaller in binary size.

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