X-Git-Url: http://xvm.mit.edu/gitweb/invirt/packages/python-afs.git/blobdiff_plain/72ed2e0334e58d6d8db5cd91c6fe5ba47d27a21b..dab10e1e9ed0f3617fdae1af24a189ef31f34699:/README.dev diff --git a/README.dev b/README.dev index 21d67f7..bc60e09 100644 --- a/README.dev +++ b/README.dev @@ -1,9 +1,13 @@ This project is an attempt to develop a fully Python-based interface -to the AFS APIs. It is based on the Perl AFS module -(http://search.cpan.org/~nog/AFS-2.6.1). +to the AFS APIs. A lot of the structure is based on the Perl AFS +module (http://search.cpan.org/~nog/AFS-2.6.1), but this will +hopefully be a bit more Pythonic in its interface. -The goal is essentially to implement the full "high-level" API of the -Perl modules in a combination of Python and Pyrex. +The goal is essentially to implement the full set of "high-level" APIs +provided by the Perl modules in a combination of Python and +Pyrex. This will typically involve a fairly simple wrapping of the C +API in a Pyrex module (e.g. afs._pts), and then a higher-level +wrapping of that Pyrex module in pure Python (e.g. afs.pts). I am depending on patches from other people, beacuse I will not finish this on my own. I think I've established enough of the structure that