[C++-sig] Pyste/Pyplusplus/Boost documentation problems

[Roman Yakovenko]

On 1/17/06, Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge at nedprod.com> wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2006 at 17:52, David Abrahams wrote:
>
> > > That would be inadvisable. The best thing is for pyste users to
> > > regenerate their config files from scratch as pyplusplus uses quite a
> > > different configuration model (nowhere near as easy, but considerably
> > > more powerful).
> >
> > I disagree.  If you're going to use a wrapper generator, it should be
> > as easy as possible.  If Pyste has a reasonably terse, expressive
> > input syntax that matches the user's mental model (something I
> > encouraged Bruno to develop and that Roman could have learned from),
> > then pyplusplus should use it or improve on it.  To do otherwise would
> > be inconsistent with the design spirit and aims of Boost.Python.
> > There's no reason a lower-level interface couldn't be available, too,
> > if necessary.
>
> The configuration setup for pyplusplus is much more terse than pyste
> for which I wrote generator script which creates the .pyste files. I
> don't need to do that in pyplusplus. Both have the major advantage
> that the config script is written in python.
>
> Roman's GUI should give a good enough template for simple usage, but
> you'd probably need to copy & paste from an example for more complex
> usage.

Niall you gave me idea. From GUI I can generate Python code. This
could give good
start. I mean, I will create code that configurate pyplusplus.

Thanks


Roman Yakovenko

>
> Cheers,
> Niall