[pacman-dev] Pacman configuration parser library

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 01/04/17 at 07:48am, Xyne wrote:
> On 2017-01-02 19:58 +0100
> Jelle van der Waa wrote:
> 
> >I'd like to chime in that I would love to see pyalpm to stop using it's
> >self written config parser. I've put it on my TODO list, but I'm not
> >sure when I'll be able to look at it.
> 
> At the risk of it becoming vaporware, I'm working on this right now. I
> already have a working shared library for src/pacman/conf.h (via CMake) and the
> beginnings of a Python extension module for working with it (so far it only
> includes a wrapper around "parseconfig" and a class for config_repo_t).
> 
> As I was writing that module I realized that I need most of alpm so I've started
> writing my own Python module for that too. I'm using scripts to automatically
> generate code for all of the enums and structs to ensure uniformity. The idea
> is to provide a module with a 1-to-1 correspondence with alpm.h (all enums as
> globals, classes for each struct, identical function names) along with utility
> modules for convenience code (e.g. convert enums to strings). This will make it
> much easier to maintain.

Interesting, are you using CFFI or are you generating C code for
CPython?

-- 
Jelle van der Waa
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