[C++-sig] Re: Boost.Python scope

Nicolas Fleury nidoizo at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 7 20:57:55 CET 2003


Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
> You are asking the right question. Some work on this was done more than a year
> ago. Basically the idea was to write a Python script that generates C++
> wrappers for the entire Python "C" API with all reference counting handled by
> boost::python::object and boost::python::handle<>. Very unfortunately, how
> should I say, that horse was beaten dead somehow. Now we need an intrepid new
> horse to pull this off. If someone feels brave enough to step forward I'll try
> to help and dig out the work that was done before.
> Ralf

Good, it means Boost.Python objective *is actually* to provide a full 
C++ API.  We just need to find that "brave enough" person ;)

Regards,

Nicolas






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