RE: Python bindings

[Mondragon, Ian]

Christopher,

  I think you're thinking of the pyobjc project:

        http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/

  Very cool stuff...

- Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris B. Vetter [mailto:chrisv@web4inc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 9:35 PM
To: Christopher Culver
Cc: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Python bindings


On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 05:15:01 +0300
Christopher Culver <crculver@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I hear there are Python bindings in development for GNUstep. What is 
> the website, if any, for that project?
> It would immediately make GNUstep a thousand times more powerful if 
> Python bindings exist. As it is now, one has to choose between 
> portability and use of external libs. But Python's standard library 
> includes so many features that one wouldn't have to worry about 
> external libs so much. I'm already drooling with anticipation of 
> having easy XML parsing, NNTP libs, MD5 and SHA1 sums, etc. etc.
> (If the Ruby bindings are "RIGS", would Python's be "PIGS"?)

>From a user's point of view, there is no difference whether they have to
install the python stuff to get your application/tool running, or a
GNUstep-based framework.

OTOH, using a framework, that implements what you (as a developer) want
without relying on external libraries to offer you the stuff should be
the preferable way.

A bridge for <your favourite here> may be a nice thing, but there are
people who prefer to keep certain stuff off their box...

>From a developer's point, if you use a bridge to <whatever> is just as
dependent of an external lib than using a framework that implements,
say, a regular expression parser that depends on PCRE. Same thing, only
the direct dependency is shifted.

-- 
Chris



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