[Bf-python] short term goals

[Willian Padovani Germano]

Hi Ken,

Stephen and I discussed a little during yesterday's meeting.  It is a 
good time to consider an overhaul, making the API more consistent and 
clean, based on things we've learned and feedback from users.  A wiki 
page and a forum thread will be used to collect suggestions so we can 
get a clear picture of all needed changes.  Specifically about 
getsetters, Stephen suggested that it could be done already, but for now 
we'd also keep the old get/setStuff().  There are a few issues like 
defining strict practices for arguments and return values, but these can 
be solved later w/o much work, if you'd like to start soon on this.

For example, there's a mix of const dicts (ex: Window.Types, etc.) and 
strings (ex: camera.type) being passed as arguments.  It'd be nice to 
stick to just one alternative and we favor const dicts (open for 
discussion, of course).

Stephen may have something to add about our chat, not sure I reproduced 
the results well here, but a suggestion then is that you could add 
getsetters but w/o removing old get/setStuff for now.  It should be 
trivial to do it at once soon.  Simultaneosly we can start asking the 
community and feeding info to a wiki page and when you're back with your 
experience on this we can set a plan.

Ken Hughes wrote:

> So any suggestions for things I can work on which everyone agrees needs
> to be done, but doesn't change the existing API?
>  (1) changing over to tp_getset
>  (2) adding get/set of attributes in addition to x.getStuff()/ 
> x.setStuff()
>  (3) something totally different?
>
> I board my train Thursday morning Pacific time.... really would like to
> have something else to do besides stare out the window, read Harry 
> Potter, and drink.
>
> Ken
>
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Willian