On Jun 25, 2008, at 9:00 AM, infralite wrote:
I'll actually second that motion, we could decide on how 'deep' we want the binding to go, what functionality we want to implement, and how we want to implement it, then sort of put together what everyone has at this stage and form something that's suitable of being official (unless we think we have that?).I'm working fulltime on this so I have plenty of time to spare, and I'll need this in the future so it's win-win for me. I'm sure the project would benefit greatly from this too. To be honest, I've been wading through tons of sub-par implementations and libfprint shines with its quality, and I forsee that it'll hit the top of the popularity list soon. Official python bindings would be great, and the fact that this many people have created their own just stresses how much this is needed / wanted.
My bindings are also minimal - they're just enough to get the job done for the project I am working on for a client. I actually tried the SWIG bindings but I found them problematic to build on one of my dev boxes and I didn't really have time to spend on working out why (sorry!).
I would fully support the idea of a single set of bindings and would be prepared to help with them. From my own point of view I have to support the AES1610, that is the only focus of my Python binding and I'm already making changes to the libfprint codebase that probably wouldn't make it in upstream (I've noted the way I fixed a bug in the bug reports, I've attached my simplest patch here as well as I can't seem to upload it to Flyspray). I am, of course, happy (and bound) to share my work. For the record, the AES1610 device is insanely small and it is hard to get the same portion of your finger to swipe across the surface on two consecutive occasions - in our testing it has proven to be very difficult for end users to use it correctly and I would recommend that if you have any choice you do not try and use this device in a serious application.
Has anyone got as far as dealing with multithreaded Python code with their bindings?
-- Geoffrey Teale Software and Technology Consultant, München [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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