[capi-sig] SWIG + expy

[Stefan Behnel]

Jack Jansen, 01.05.2010 23:40:
> I would be very interested in a universal intermediate format for all
> the interface generators. I'm still using a version of Guido's old bgen,
> now grudgingly extended to handle C++ and do bidirectional bridging
> between Python and C++, and while I love and cherish the code generator
> the C++ parser is, uhm... challenging. Parsing C++ with per-line regular
> expressions is no fun:-)
>
> I looked at gccxml at some point, as well as at some of the competing
> Python interface generators, but it went nowhere. gccxml output is far
> too detailed, and the output is too much of a simple parse tree to be of
> any use. The intermediate formats of the other interface generators I
> looked at were all too inaccessible.
>
> Maybe we can come up with something decent in this group?

This sounds like a good topic for the CAPI-sig group, rather than for 
c.l.py. I suggest keeping subsequent discussion there.

Stefan