[openbeos] Re: C++ mandatory for Haiku?

> > Perhaps not actually include the runtime, but at the very least 
> > annotating parts of the code base to make it easier to generate 
> > bindings for those language. Then, a tool could be run on that to 
> > generate the bindings.  Although I'd be happier if that were to be 
> > integrated to the system directly -- possibly as a separate 
> > download. 
> > But definitely maintained by Haiku. (*volounteering*)
> 
> at least I don't see it :-)
> In any way, there shouldn't be any dependencies to other languages - 
> the build process shouldn't need more than it currently needs. Of 
> course, this has no influence on possible annotations of the sources 
> to 
> make automatic creation of bindings possible.
>
Good. It would hopefully be very small changes to the source code, in 
the form of doxygen-style comments.

> However, I would like to see how these bindings look like, how big 
> they 
> are, and where they have to be placed, and finally, if they provide 
> more info than the headers already contain - because if they don't, I 
> would rather see a more advanced binding generation tool that does 
> not 
> need such annotations.
> 
Sure. I'll let you know as soon as I have something.  Unfortunately, 
automatic generation is not very easy; at least not from any of the 
publicly available tools:

        http://bits.jansson.be/extender/wiki/WrappingTools

Regards,
-- Mikael

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