Re: [Vala] support for Python C API

[Celil <celil kj gmail com>]

In the long term it may be nice to add support for automatic generation
of a python module, so that one could do something like

    valac --python mymodule mymodule.vala

to obtain a compiled python module that can be loaded from python, and
have the same classes and methods as the vala library.  Maybe something
similar to valaswig, but specifically geared towards python.

This would be especially nice for Genie users, as the two languages are
quite similar, and one would be able to seamlessly integrate Genie code
with Python code - tapping into the greater performance and execution
speed of Genie, while not sacrificing the vast libraries that are
available in Python.

Celil

On 06/18/2010 09:04 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
> The problem is greater than a missing vapi.  The PyObject system needs
> to be properly mapped for the vapi to be useful, and that requires
> support in code.
>
> I've been advocating that we need this for some time.
>
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Celil <celil kj gmail com
> <mailto:celil kj gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     I am writing Python bindings to a library that is written in Vala.
>     Currently, I need to output the header files, and write the
>     bindings in
>     C. However, tt would be very nice if it was possible to write then
>     in Vala.
>
>     Is anybody writing a vala vapi for "Python.h"? It would be pretty
>     sweet
>     to be able to write python extensions in vala.
>
>     Celil
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