During August I got sick, and the weather was lousy anyway, so I decided to continue development of
PyBindGen. Since then I have finished most features that will be needed at least for
NS-3, which is very C++ demanding. The list of features implemented is summarised in the
project page, and I won't bother to repeat them here.
So what's left to do now?
- Testing and bug fixing; I'm sure there are plently of bugs in there waiting to be found and fixed, since the generator has had very little real world testing so far;
- Adding support for some Python object special methods and protocols, such as __str__, __add__, __sub__, etc.; also mapping C++ iterators to Python iterators and vice versa, etc;
- Start thinking of a automatic code scanning layer on top of the pybindgen API, which scans C/C++ header files and tries to automatically 'guess' the definitions, a la Py++.
Fortunately the hardest part, the foundation, is already done, and I'm pretty happy with it: it is 100% Python (except the generated code), it's well structured and modular, and uses the standard/simple/well document Python/C API, rather than obscure C++ template metalanguage.
