Re: [Boost-users] Pyste/Pyplusplus/Boost documentation problems

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-12 18:01:10

"Drumheller, Michael" <michael.drumheller_at_[hidden]> writes:

> This gmane entry 
> <<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.c++/9049/match=pyplusplus+m
> ature>>
> says, among other things, the following
>
> """If you can, use pyplusplus over pyste. I say that for ALL users of
> pyste, pyplusplus is now mature enough to be useful as well as being
> actively developed. It can also do quite a few tricks pyste cannot."""
>
> If this is really the case, I think the Boost documentation needs to say
> so.  For example, the doc page
> <<http://www.boost.org/libs/python/pyste/>> does not give any warning
> that Pyste is essentially deprecated (which it apparently is, if the
> above quote is true).  

It may be deprecated by the author of that quote, but the author of
the quote has no official standing.

> Further, as far as I can tell there are no clues
> at <<http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm#Inter-language>> indicating
> that users might want to check out pyplusplus, whereas the official
> Boost.Python page <<http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/index.html>>
> explicity directs users to Pyste.

The author of Pyplusplus has not proposed it as a replacement for
Pyste in Boost.

> The end result is that an innocent user who is new to integrating
> Python and C++ (like, um, say, me) could reasonably come away with
> the impression that the most state-of-the-art approach to use is
> Boost.Python+Pyste.
>
> As a side question, does anyone use Boost.Python *without* an
> automatic code generator such as Pyste or Pyplusplus?  

Yes, lots of people do.

> It does not seem like a practical thing to do--but maybe I'm missing
> something...?

Why do you say that?

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Dave Abrahams
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