[mythtv] Questions about Python bindings

[George Galt]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Rebecca Sutton Koeser
<rlskoeser at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've been trying out the python bindings for Myth and have run into a few
> problems and also found myself with some questions so I thought I would
> mail the dev list.
>
> First, I was wondering if it would be possible to break out the language
> bindings into their own git repositories?  It seems like that would make it
> a lot easier for people like me, who may have expertise in a particular
> language and are somewhat familiar with MythTV, to contribute fixes,
> documentation, etc for the bindings they want to use and/or the language
> they are familiar with.
>
> My other questions are more specific to the Python bindings, and may only
> be of interest to whoever is working on and maintaining them.
>
> Is there any roadmap or status document explaining what is implemented,
> what is planned, etc?  It doesn't seem like the python bindings are making
> much use of the Services API yet (and in one case where I think it is, it
> needs a small fix-- something I'd like to submit as a patch but I'm
> hesitant to fork the entire myth repo for a one-line python change). Is
> adding support for the services API planned? Is that something that belongs
> in the bindings or is outside the scope/intent of these?
>
> I've also been struggling with the documentation.  It seems inconsistent
> and incomplete on the wiki, depending on the component or the version.
>  Would it be possible to convert this over to using sphinx (or something
> similar), where the docs could be auto-generated from the code, and
> possibly hosted and auto-updated on readthedocs.org? (This is another
> case where having the Python code in its own repo would be helpful.)   I
> find myself having to go into the code to figure out the parts I want to
> use, and I'm a little disoriented there because I don't have a sense of how
> things are organized or which pieces belong where. To be clear, this is
> something I'd be willing to help with,
>
> I'm tempted to make my own Python wrappers for the services API so I can
> start fresh and not have to make sense of someone else's code, but it seems
> like it would benefit the community more if I can help make the existing
> bindings better, and I've been using MythTV for 10+ years, so it would be
> nice to be able to contribute something back, however small.
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Rebecca:

I am not one of the developers, but I do know that you will probably get a
better response to your questions on the myth IRC channel.  You can locate
the information on the channel here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/IRC

FWIW, it sounds like you have some good ideas and the talent and
determination to get them done.  I'd love to see some of your ideas
implemented.

George
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