Python bindings HOWTO proof reader request

[Ben McGinnes]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:57:14AM +0100, Justus Winter wrote:
> Tobias Mueller <muelli at cryptobitch.de> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 10:26 +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote:
> >> That is my long term plan: to (ideally) port the damned thing off SWIG
> >> entirely and to CFFI.
> > hrm.
> > The benefit of SWIG is that it nicely exposes everything the native
> > build does.  So it's more work to not expose an existing gpgme feature
> > than it is to implement it in the python bindings.
> > Does CFFI also provide that kind of automatic exposure?
> 
> Yes.  You feed it a header file and get an object with a method for
> every function found in the header.

Yes, but only if that header file does not contain features which are
not yet supported by the underlying C parser, which I think gpgme.h
currently does.

> What it does *not* provide is automatic translation of values at the
> ffi boundary.  I consider that a rather cool feature of SWIG.

It is, but I suspect that that's part of the things which stem from
SWIG being its own little intermediate language between C and Python,
just like Cython is.  Whereas with CFFI you just need to know Python
and a bit of C.


Regards,
Ben
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