Perl bindings for paludis

[Bapt]

paludis already has ruby bindings, would be great to have perl bindings too.

[ciaranm]

Not something that's going to get done unless someone a) provides patches and b) convinces us that they're going to stick around and maintain it. I had a look at the Perl XS API. It's horrible, and a lot more work than Ruby or Python.

[pioto]

Hmm.... I might wanna take another look at this.

[pioto]

I've got some rudimentary working code available in a separate git repo, browseable at:  http://git.pioto.org/?p=paludis-perl.git;a=summary

It isn't anything like complete yet.

[pioto]

Other things to potentially look into, besides XS, include:

Inline::CPP

 http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Inline::CPP

SWIG

 http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/SWIGPlus.html  http://www.swig.org/papers/Perl98/swigperl.htm

At the moment, I'm leaning towards SWIG.

[ciaranm]

SWIG's pretty much unusable, since its support for C++ sucks. You'd have to write a nearly-C API on top of the C++ API, and SWIG that.

[pioto]

Replying to ciaranm:

SWIG's pretty much unusable, since its support for C++ sucks. You'd have to write a nearly-C API on top of the C++ API, and SWIG that.

XS's C++ support is almost certainly worse still. Apparently SWIG at least knows about smart pointers and what not. I haven't actually done much w/ it yet aside from peruse some docs, so it may end up not working... But mucking around with XS is just like giving myself a root canal.

[samvimes]

Replying to pioto:

Replying to ciaranm:

SWIG's pretty much unusable, since its support for C++ sucks. You'd have to write a nearly-C API on top of the C++ API, and SWIG that.

XS's C++ support is almost certainly worse still. Apparently SWIG at least knows about smart pointers and what not. I haven't actually done much w/ it yet aside from peruse some docs, so it may end up not working... But mucking around with XS is just like giving myself a root canal.

I tried using swig for the interface with paludis a while ago. The main problem I ran into is that there was no shared_ptr support for perl. However, there is shared_ptr support with python as the target language, and I was told on the swig ml that it will be easy to implement it for perl (though I tried and didn't succeed). So I think that it's reasonable to expect that if there is a swig interface that works for python, one day it will work with perl as well.

[pioto]

I don't have any motivation to work on this more at this point. I'll leave my old code around for now, though.

WONTFIX, reopen if someone else cares to do the work for this.