Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Constants etc.

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

On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 19:08 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> bb...@ma... wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> I've been wondering, if interfacing an arbitrary framework is mostly
> automated, we could make it more dynamic with an import hook: if 
> "import
> SomeFramework" fails, a hook can be called to wrap it if it happens to
> be ean existing framework. That way we could delete AddressBook
> altogether ;-)

The new import-hook mechanism looks easy enough to use for things like 
this. You'd loose the mapping of constants and global functions this 
way, but if you want those you can still implement wrappers the hard 
way.

Ronald