hpp-python package

Provide Python bindings of the HPP software. These bindings differ from the one provided by hpp-corbaserver. They are native bindings that do not use a middleware. The bindings are generated by boost::python.

Compilation

Installation follows the standard CMake procedure:

git clone --recursive ...
mkdir hpp-python/build
cd hpp-python/build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=... -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make
make test
make install

Generate documentation

Script doc/configure.py is used to generate documentation of Python objects from C++ objects. It reads the XML documentation generated by doxygen so the dependencies must provide such files. To make it work, do:

• Add GENERATE_XML=YES into doc/Doxyfile.extra.in of all the dependency of this project.
• Install the generated documentation by adding the following lines to CMakeLists.txt:

IF(_INSTALL_DOC)
  INSTALL(DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/doc/doxygen-xml
    DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DOCDIR})
ENDIF()

File doc/configure.py contains a short documentation of how to document the bindings.

TODO

• Use doxygen to generate XML documentation of the headers included by a file. Then use the generated XML doc to update the documentation of the files in src/pyhpp. Doxygen configuration variables INCLUDE_PATH and SEARCH_INCLUDES might be helpful.