[pyorbit] What's the approach?

[Michael Robinson]

Phil Dawes <philipd at orbitcpp.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
>I had a look at the code on the web page (and got it all to compile with
>some minor hacks :-) and it looks like the idl compiler generates c
>stubs (although I didn't get this working on my own idl - I couldn't
>find the right script to use).

Yes, you're right.

>I was wondering if this was the intended overall approach?

It was my personal intended overall approach.  I want to use Python as a 
middleware/second-tier scripting language.  In those applications, you 
almost always have a well-defined interface (or, at least, should), and
performance is very big consideration.

I can appreciate that for other applications people would want dynamic
marshalling.  I think the world is big enough for both approaches, and
people should work on implementing whichever approach they have the most
pressing need for.

	-Michael Robinson