[Xcb] python bindings

[Jeremy A. Kolb]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Vincent Torri wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Barton C Massey wrote:
> 
> > In message <200707031541.27268.hto at arcor.de> you wrote:
> >> I've put online a _very_ unstable version of my Python
> >> bindings.
> >
> > Super!
> 
> i agree ! very nice work :)
> 

Agreed.

> I guess that, once we are sure that the c files are correctly created, we 
> can began to add documentation (in xml description and doxygen in .h 
> files), right ?
> 
> >> 2) The iterator-API is really hard to handle &
> >> understand. I tried to explain it to a friend of mine and
> >> it took him hours to "get it".  (And I believe that he is
> >> pretty smart ;)
> >
> > Yeah.  It's one of those things that we chucked in there
> > because we needed something and couldn't figure out anything
> > better offhand.  I'm not super proud of it, and it was
> > mostly my idea.  Better docs and a specific tutorial would
> > probably help, but it would be cool if we could just replace
> > the whole mess with something nicer.
> 
> I can add that in the tutorial. Imho, the iterator stuff is not that 
> obvious, but not that complicated too.
> 

The iterator interface is kind of annoying.  It makes a lot of xlib -> xcb 
ports cumbersome in areas.

> > BTW, don't expect any comments from Jamey for another week
> > or so.  He went and got married, go figure, and is now on
> > his honeymoon in Hawaii.
> 

What a slacker! Just kidding, wish him the best.

> That's a quite good news !
> 
> Vincent
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