[PyKDE] How to contribute to sip ?

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Tue Feb 28 16:30:27 GMT 2006


Nigel Stewart <ns at fluent.com> wrote:

>> What does this have to do with SIP again? I don't remember GCC not
>> generating the object files if the source code is not changed.
>
>      A compiler takes one input file and creates one output file.

Actually not really, since the input can also contain an arbitrary large
number of header files. Not that this matters for your point, though.

>      The granularity of SIP is different, it's taking multiple
>      inputs (via %Import) and creating multiple outputs.  This
>      design poses a "choke point".  I think being time-stamp
>      friendly is a way for SIP to compensate for this.

I see. Can't you call SIP once for each .sip file, and make it generate one
class at a time? Isn't that what %Import is for?
-- 
Giovanni Bajo




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