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diff --git a/devel/sip/pkg-descr b/devel/sip/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9852ea208b06 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/sip/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +SIP is a tool for generating bindings for C++ classes so that they can be +accessed as normal Python classes. SIP takes many of its ideas from SWIG but, +because it is specifically designed for C++ and Python, is able to generate +tighter bindings. SIP is so called because it is a small SWIG. + +SIP was originally designed to generate Python bindings for KDE and so has +explicit support for the signal slot mechanism used by the Qt/KDE class +libraries. However, SIP can be used to generate Python bindings for any C++ +class library. + +The bindings generated by SIP support access to the following C++ and Qt +features: + - connecting Qt signals to Python functions and class methods + - connecting Python signals to Qt slots + - overloading virtual member functions with Python class methods + - protected member functions + - abstract classes + - enumerated types + - global class instances + - static member functions. |