"Rythin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi everyone. > We are looking for a volunteer co-programmers for a MUD's gamedriver > project. As of now, a gamedriver is divided into two separate but > tightly interconnected systems - C++ driver and Python lib. > > C++ Driver is supposed to be managing memory, proccesses and > communication between them (transparent as far as net is concerned). > Python lib is to define the user's interfaces. Both of them are > designed to work in an object-oriented enviroment, with lib's classes > being driver's child-classes. >
Have you considered whether the C++ Driver is even necessary? Python's run-time engine already implements the memory and process management tasks, and does so in compiled C code (and has been tested and retested by hundreds, nay thousands, perhaps even millions of Python users). Interprocess communication can be done using CORBA or Pyro add-ons. You may do better by "letting Python be Python" instead of confining it to limited user graphical and/or text interaction, and then marshaling/unmarshaling commands and responses to and from the C++ layer. Before getting too wrapped up in the C++ core/utility layer, get this (or a prototype) running in pure Python first, measure the performance, and then reimplement in C/Pyrex/ShedSkin/C++ for the performance-intensive bits. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
