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[Fabio Varesano <fabio.varesano@xxxxxxxxx>]

Awesome, this is good news. In case you wanna dig more into this, I'll 
be happy to test any patch or early code development.

It's also worth noting that SWIG isn't the only way to access C/C++ 
libraries from within Python.. these are some of the other ways:
Cython http://cython.org/
Pyrex http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/

Fabio

On 02/27/2012 09:14 AM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote:
> Sorry, I ignore the "xxxx_wrapper.cxx + yyy_wrapper.cxx + etc cannot
> be linked together"... swig define them as static functions, so they
> can be linked together and will work. The path is not that dark ;-)
>
>
>
> 2012/2/27 Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:miguelangel@xxxxxxx>>
>
>     I've been doing some experiments about that during the weekend,
>     with python as a first target, and using SWIG (which should be
>     highly desired, as it's something easier to mantain).
>
>     And by now, what I found is that swig is quite mature, but mainly
>     ready for this:
>          Python--->[extension]/extension_wrap.o ---->library.so
>
>     This is one of our intended usages, but,  for usage inside kicad:
>
>          Kicad<--->Python-->extension--->Kicad
>
>     It may require some hacking. They had an embed.i that can be a
>     start point. The problem is that SWIG build wrapper modules that
>     are ready to be loaded from python, but they include all the swig
>     logic. So then, if we linked kicad + python lib +
>     wrapper_kicad.cxx + wrapper_eeschema.cxx + wrapper_pcbnew.cxx then
>     the swig code would be x3 times.
>
>     So I'll keep playing until I find a good way, and then we could
>     really estimate the man/hours needed :-)
>
>
>     2012/2/25 Fabio Varesano <fabio.varesano@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:fabio.varesano@xxxxxxxxx>>
>
>         +1 on choosing Python over LUA or JS. Blender is using Python
>         as scripting language and also internally.. and I guess
>         Blender's requirements are pretty similar to those of KiCad.
>
>
>
>         On 02/24/2012 09:22 PM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote:
>
>             About python, yes, I think it fits the same way lua does,
>             and I'm my
>             opinion, it has more libraries
>             that can be useful for the scripts (like image
>             manipulation, etc...).
>             There wasn't a branch already
>             trying this, how good or bad did it go?
>
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