Re: [Pythonmidi-devel] And there was much rejoicing!

[Donovan P. <dp...@ul...>]

On Oct 29, 2004, at 8:41 AM, Jay Vaughan wrote:
> At 17:08 Uhr +0200 29.10.2004, Jack Jansen wrote:
>> (For the record: bgen may be quirky, but it has enabled me to almost
>> single-handedly open up all major MacOS APIs to Python, and keep
>> those interfaces up to date over the last 10 years, from MacOS 7
>> straight to MacOS X. So, while quirky I wouldn't call it "sucky").
>
> well, if its gonna be a tool, i'd warrant that more than one person 
> should be able to use it.  thats all.  i had no idea you were talking 
> about something you have such an investment in, since you brought up 
> how hard it is to use ...\

I would just like to defend bgen. I have used it, and it was not very 
difficult to learn, and once I had it working, it wrapped a large 
number of C apis automatically. It's main problem is lack of 
documentation and interest, then.

I'd say it's pretty similar to SWIG, but better at what it does (which 
is less than swig does), but SWIG has more documentation and language 
support, so people use it.

dp