Re: [ctypes-users] Re: Future plans for ctypes
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From: Shane H. (IEEE) <sha...@ie...> - 2006-02-24 17:06:47
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On Feb 23, 2006, at 17:17, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > From: Thomas Heller > >> Ok, it would not be a problem to include the complete >> codegenerator in comtypes. >> >> The deeper question is whether the to-be developed separate >> codegenerator stuff would need support in core-ctypes. > > If the code generator is useful for other than COM code (IOW, it is > useful for general C/C++ headers), it seems to me that it should be > included with core ctypes. > > If it is only useful with COM code (IDL, type & object libraries, etc) > then include it with comtypes. Anything that generates code ends up having a 1000 opinions about how that code should look. I took the code generator to be an inspiration, and have heavily customized it to my purposes -- and coding style. ;) I think GCCXML is useful for much more than ctypes, and I view my generator "compiling" the GCCXML output into a python+ctypes target... It's working great so far -- thanks in large part to the work Thomas did in making the first version. Thanks, -Shane |