Re: ctypeslib maintainance

On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:41:45 Reuben Thomas wrote:
> One other good approach might be to anoint successor projects, and
> kill this one; depending on what you want to do, ctypesgen, cython,
> sip and boost.python look like possible ways to go. No point spreading
> the community's effort too thin...

On the one hand you might be right with this sentiment, but don't forget that 
especially Cython (with some generator), SIP and as well Boost.Python (or 
rather Py++ for Boost.Python) are catering for *very* different types of 
bindings generators not really comparable or compatible with Ctypes. 
Particularly, as Ctypes may be (one of) the easiest to use for plain C 
libraries, but will most likely remain a no-go for C++ (as far as I'd 
anticipate from the previous efforts undertaken).

So, if there's no direct successor from a different ballpark playing the same 
game (that is: being Ctypes compatible), I'd suggest to keep Ctypeslib alive. 
I don't know anything about Ctypesgen, so that might be an alternative, as 
long as it is cross platform again. Even if Ctypeslib is being kept alive 
until some people get their heads together to draw from Good Ideas (TM) in 
different projects and incorporate them into a decidedly joint successor or 
other effort.

Guy

PS: Having said that above: No, I'm not a potential candidate for this job ;-)

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Guy K. Kloss
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Auckland University of Technology
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