[PySide] PySide is Dead?

[Félix C. Morency]

I don't know the details, but I think that ITK [1] uses GCCXML to create
its Python bindings on Linux/Windows/OSX.

  [1]: http://www.itk.org

-F


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Hugo Parente Lima <hugo.lima at openbossa.org
> wrote:

> On Monday, December 10, 2012 12:42:35 PM John Ehresman wrote:
> > On 12/10/12 12:32 PM, Hugo Parente Lima wrote:
> > >> My thought on the code generator was to have the C++ parser write
> > >> the parse tree out to some xml file that could then be read by a
> > >> code generator written in python.  Then the C++ parser could
> > >> possibly be replaced with something else and the generator could
> > >> be more quickly improved since it's now implemented in python.
> > >> Changing it would still require C++ knowledge, though, because
> > >> it's emitting C++ code.
> > >
> > > There's GCCXML[1], so the python program just read the output of
> > > GCC XML plus some other file with meta information equivalent to
> > > the current typesystem but less verbose and outputs the binding
> > > code, seems easy, but it's a looooonnng task.
> >
> > As a first small step, I would modify shiboken to output the parse
> > tree from its internal C++ parser.  I would do this mainly to minimize
> > the changes to the generator and the goal here is to get the generator
> > code converted to python and not to replace the C++ parser.
> >
> > Later, alternative parsers could be investigated and perhaps used --
> > something based on gcc worries me though because it may not be easy to
> > install and use on Windows.
>
> For sure, this practically throw GCCXML out of the table.
>
> A guy used this parser used by Shiboken generator, QtCreator, KDevelop,
> etc..
> to output XML and use it in a Lua-Qt binding, I indeed did some experiments
> with this years ago.
>
> > Cheers,
> >
> > John
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