[Pythonmac-SIG] Carbon bindings' future

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 10 Apr, 2008, at 11:46, has wrote:
>
> On 9 Apr 2008, at 06:56, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>
>> On 3 Apr, 2008, at 15:46, has wrote:
>>>
>>>> it would be nice to have complete bindings to the bits of
>>>> Carbon that still make sense.
>>>
>>> Yes, although I'd repeat my earlier suggestion that the most
>>> economically viable way to provide Carbon bindings would be to  
>>> create
>>> ObjC wrappers for the Carbon APIs of interest.
>>
>> I'm far from convinced that this is true.
>
> If you use bridgesupport/bgen/whatever to generate ObjC wrappers then
> ObjC users, Python users, Ruby users, Perl users, etc, etc. all
> benefit. If you generate Python wrappers, then only Python users
> benefit

We seem to be agreeing, the bit I'm not convinced about is the "create  
ObjC wrappers" bit. You don't have to write Objective-C wrappers to  
use bridgesupport, bridgesupport can easily wrap pure C functions as  
well.  It might be necessary to enhance the bridgesupport format a  
little to deal with oddities in Carbon APIs and it would obviously be  
helpfull to cooperate with other bridgesupport users for that.

My guess is that Carbon bindings are a medium-term solution anyway,  
Apple seems to be moving away from Carbon (as can be seen by the lack  
of 64-bit Carbon and the deprecation of QuickTime in favour of QTKit).

Ronald
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