[PySide] PySide - Qt5 - Swig

[Roman Lacko]

Hi,

2013/1/13 anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>

> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Fabien Castan <fabcastan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  I personally like the idea of using SWIG to build Qt bindings. SWIG is
>>> the only tool I have ever used to interface C++ and Python, and it seemed
>>> fine. All of the alternatives to SWIG seemed worse.
>>> For those who don't know, PyQt uses SIP. SIP is similar to SWIG in many
>>> ways.
>>
>> Compared to PyQt, our binding creates bigger binaries, but it may be
>> better with hand written rules... And we could discuss with SWIG guys on
>> that point.
>>
>
> "may be better" is a bad argument. Historically PySide used Boost, it
> generated a lot of garbage too, and that's why Shiboken was born (correct
> me if I wrong). The only problem with Shiboken maintainability is that it
> is written in C++ and most PySide users with primarily Python background.
> SWIG doesn't tackle this core flaw at all and may become an additional
> hurdle that will bury the project even more.
>
> The good solution (tm) is not to rewrite Shiboken from scratch, but find a
> way to gradually move the logic out of it into Python.
>

+1

it would be pity to throw away all the hard work of developers on shiboken.
i'm for rewrite from c++ to python if there is no other option or interest
to suport c++ shiboken.

Regards
R.


>
>
>> Anyway SIP is GPL or commercial... so this is not an option.
>>
>
> SWIG is GPL too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIG
> --
> anatoly t.
>
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