Python bindings by default

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Apr 3, 2012, at 7:52 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
>> 
>>> I'll also note that the python bindings are an application PROGRAMMING
>>> interface, i.e., *not for users*. It doesn't seem at all unreasonable
>>> to me that someone who wants to develop with Gnucash's API should have
>>> to build it from source first. It's tedious and annoying on Windows,
>>> but not difficult.
>> 
>> Except, of course, that the curent build system for windows does not
>> have any hooks for building the python bindings.  I would agree with you
>> more strongly if those hooks were in place.
>
> All that should be needed is to edit the configure options in
> install-impl.sh and make sure that the necessary python environment
> variables are defined, just as one would do for a unix build. What
> sort of hooks do you want?

Perhaps something a user could define in custom.sh to do this?

> A more interesting question is whether anyone has checked that the
> python bindings even work on M$Win, either with ActiveState or MinGW
> python. I haven't.

Indeed, this would be an interesting test.  Maybe we could redistribute
that?

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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