[Bf-python] libblender (blender inside Python or RPython)

[Goat Man]

Hi Toni,

I'm not sure what you mean by "evil secret", what is so evil about it?

I am trying another approach to making the bindings, rather than doing it
all by hand, looks like there is a good way to auto generate a complete
wrapper for the C API.  Some samples (non-working):
http://pastebin.com/tDZxvt54
http://pastebin.com/7V69giaM
http://pastebin.com/EZLht07S

I've started a new project for the binding generator, here:
http://code.google.com/p/rpythonic/



On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Toni Alatalo <antont at kyperjokki.fi> wrote:

> On to, 2010-09-23 at 19:41 +0800, Goat Man wrote:
> >  Blender is a large and ever growing program, so where i think RPython
> > would be ideal is in gluing all these C components together from the
> > top down (from the mainloop downwards).  In this new model the
>
> making blender.py to be the executable has always been a kind of a half
> serious evil secret plan the py folks around blender have had, codenamed
> blender 3.0 etc :)
>
> .. rpython certainly brings an interesting twist, and libblender can
> easily be useful for many things .. we are for example using blender as
> a server side thing to generate meshes in one app. now just use blender
> subprocess to run it in a new process, but using as a lib would of
> course be much more straightforward and give better control. that's why
> i also started testing making libblender back then long ago.
>
> >  structure of Blender changes from: C on top with Python underneath,
> > to: RPython on top, C in the middle, Python on the bottom.  In the
> > long term there could be big speed gains by using RPython and its
> > integrated JIT generator, because Blender deals with a lot of runtime
> > data and some of this could be constant folded by a JIT.
>
> right. thanks for the heads-up and keep us posted!
>
> ~Toni
>
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