[Pythonmac-SIG] Finding what a broken alias refers to.

has hengist.podd at virgin.net
Fri Jun 24 00:52:28 CEST 2005


Bob wrote:

>>Is there a way I can contribute (using some of the time
>>slots I now try to put aside for Boost and the unreasonable number of
>>things I intend to do)?
>
>Currently, all of the wrapped Carbon functionality is done with an  ancient, fragile and undocumented parser/generator called bgen, which  parses out Universal Headers and spits out potentially working Python  bindings.  In order to make a useful contribution to those modules,  you'd have to learn it, which really isn't worth doing.  For your own  purposes you could hack the C code it spits out directly, but unless  it's done with bgen, it's not going to end up in Python CVS.

I blame Joseph Heller myself.

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