Re: Questions about gnunet python bindings

[Tobias Platen]

On Mon, 2022-02-28 at 11:26 +0000, Impulse wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am just asking about progress on the python bindings for GNUnet,
> and
> what needs to be done.
> 
> In the near future i want to write some python applications for
> GNUnet.
> So far i see limited functionality, mainly DNS and DHT stuff.
> 
> I realise that the python bindings depend on the dbus-bindings. So
> was
> wondering what needs to be done to get python bindings to a usable
> state for big applications.
> 
> I may work on it, even though i currently only have made a couple of
> projects in C so i am not very experianced in C.
> 
> I think a lot more applications would be developed when the python
> bindings cover most features needed.
> 
Some features of GNUnet are exported using dbus, but not all.
To access low level features such as the messenger or caded you may
need a hand written wrapper. Since I am interested in writing parts of
my app in python or guile I will have a deeper look at the language
bindings.

Tobias