On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 2:08 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski < tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch> wrote:
> On 16.09.2016 18:01, Michael Steinberg wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > when activating python bindings on my msvc build with a few refactor > > commits applied, it came to my attention that SWIG simply does not > > support std::unique_ptr. > > > > With this message I want to ask what is the common view whether it is > > okay to have SWIG thumbscrew the project's source code, considering > > there are alternative generators, and generatorless libraries like > > pybind11. Of those alternatives I would *personally* prefer the latter, > > as it is no black box and the binding generation is part of the normal > > c++ source code. > > There's been a discussion on the irc channel regardings this and also > > the dependency on having wx exported as well. So I thought the logical > > consequence would be to broaden the audience and move the discussion > here. > > Hi Michael, > > It may sound controversial, but I'd say using SWIG is a bad idea: we > expose for the people the internal APIs of pcbnew that we intend to > refactor in the near future. Any change to the BOARD storage model means > a change to the scripting API. IMHO we should have a more pythonish API > that hides all C++ stuff from the python side completely and is > independent from the changes in pcbnew's core. > > Cheers, > Tom > > I agree with all that as well. I think the best thing to do is create a PCB API which provides C bindings and people can make whatever scripting language API on top of that; this way there will be a much more uniform scheme for everyone. I was thinking about this while working on the STEP exporter but the more I looked at things, the bigger the job became. Eventually I thought it would take me a year or even more hacking at it part-time so I put it on the deferred list of things to do. Until we have such an API, I think things will be a bit of a mess. On the other hand some people want a scripting API now and can't wait for some part-time coder to come up with something in a year or two. - Cirilo > > > > > Cheers! > > Michael > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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