SWIG and Callbacks

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

David Abrahams <david.abrahams at rcn.com> wrote:
> 
> "Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" <mickey at tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote in
> message news:3d0c6d67 at nntp.server.uni-frankfurt.de...
>> David Abrahams <david.abrahams at rcn.com> wrote:
>> > With Boost.Python, what you write looks like a kind of IDL (interface
>> > description language), which just happens to be built out of C++ source
>> > code. Lots of jobs (function argument type checking, conversion, arity
>> > checking) are done automatically, but the library doesn't decide which
>> > elements to wrap. Unlike SWIG and a few others, there's no attempt to
> parse
>> > your source code. Instead, the compile-time introspection capabilities
> of
>> > C++ are exploited to automatically build wrappers from function and
> member
>> > function pointers.
>>
>> I see. So it seems in order to get a nice object oriented Python
> interface,
>> I can 1.) use SWIG to parse the header file and automatically produce a
> wrapper
>>       1.1.) and then use this low-level wrapper to write some high-level
> python classes around it or
>>       2.) use Boost.Python and do the two steps in one by writing a
> "handcrafted" interface?
> 
> I have no deep familiarity with SWIG, so I really don't know it takes to
> produce high-level classes on the Python side with that tool. If you use
> Boost.Python, you do get true classes on the Python side which are wrapped
> around your C++ classes.
> 
>> How would sip come into this picture? Is it more like SWIG for C++ or more
> like Boost.Python?
>> (Apart from not beeing concerned about the total lack of documentation ;)
> 
> I wrote this page more than a year ago; it's surely out-of-date:
> 
> http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/comparisons.html
> 
> Someone needs to freshen it up for the upcoming release of Boost.Python v2;
> Since you seem to be doing a survey, would you care to volunteer?

Sounds reasonable. I will use your document as a basis and will gather
updated data. However, I won't have time to do this before mid-july, since
the current semester is very busy :)

Yours,

Mickey.

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