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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Improve binding generator organization"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162055#c4">Comment # 4</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Improve binding generator organization"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162055">bug 162055</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:cdumez@apple.com" title="Chris Dumez <cdumez@apple.com>"> <span class="fn">Chris Dumez</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=162055#c3">comment #3</a>)
<span class="quote">> If we want to do this, I recommend switching piece at a time, by handling
> one particular output file, getting it to work incrementally for all input
> cases, then expanding out from there.
>
> One big problem is that as far as I know, all of our IDL parsing is in Perl,
> and the rest of code generation is predicated on being able to parse the IDL
> files. Is there some Python library we can use to parse IDL? Or is there a
> workable intermediate format we can use to shim IDLParser.pm to Python code
> generators?</span >
Rewriting our bindings generator in Python would be huge effort and would probably not bring huge benefits. I would much rather we improve / clean our current generator (I do agree its needs clean up / refactoring).</pre>
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