Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Mapping symbols from existing binaries

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 12-mei-04, at 4:20, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> I think it's about time to start considering the ability to grab 
> symbols from bundles and frameworks.  The particular use case I'm 
> thinking of is extern constant NSStrings and integers, so we can make 
> it more painless to wrap existing frameworks and defer more ObjC code 
> to Python.
>
> What kind of interface do you all think this should have?
>
> This would be my proposal:
> objc.loadSymbols(str moduleName, dict dictToUpdate str binaryPath, 
> dict symbolNamesToSignatures) -> dict symbolNamesToObjects

That should be easy enough, this is register_variableList in 
wrapper-const-table.h. This function whould have to be moved into the 
core and made available to python code.

>
> Ronald, what's your schedule for the release?
As soon as possible, the only reason I haven't done a release yet is 
that the unittests cause a crash on 10.2. I checked in a change that 
might fix that, but I have not yet checked this.


>  Would it be possible to get this in beforehand?  Do you want to write 
> it or should I?

Feel free to add it, if you include some unittests and documentation.

Ronald
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