Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Constants etc.

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 18:40 Europe/Amsterdam, bb...@ma... wrote:

> On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 12:17 US/Eastern, Martina Oefelein wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>> Most constants should be bridged and are available directly in the 
>>> AppKit namespace.
>>>
>>> There may be some that slipped through the cracks.  If you have 
>>> specific examples, please let us know!
>> I have an example: All AddressBook constants.
>
> Ahh... those aren't Cocoa constants. :-)
>
> The AddressBook constants are not currently bridged, but the address 
> book API is still quite usable.
>
> See Examples/addressbook.py.
>
> Ronald:   should we go ahead and auto-generate the source to cover all 
> of AB's compiled constants?   This would require creating 
> yet-another-module.  Maybe AddressBook should be moved out of PyObjC 
> and into its own project given that most apps will not use the AB API?

Generating the constants shouldn't be too hard. We could even generate 
a pure-python file (that would require an intermediate Objective-C 
program, but it is easily doable).

I'd keep the module in PyObjC, maintaining it as part of PyObjC is not 
much work, maintaining it seperately would IMO be a sure way to 
introduce bitrot.

Ronald