On Sun 17 January 2010 1:36:07 pm Armelius Cameron wrote: > Yes, a lot of these are for software development No, they are not just for software development. Applications use them at runtime. Say you write a Plasma widget in python. Plasma doesn't speak python by default, and python has no knowledge of any KDE or Qt libraries, functions, or anything, because the libraries are written in a language that these don't understand. Along come bindings. These give various languages (in the case of PyQt, PyKDE4 and PyQt4 it is Python) an interface to call the functions that exist in the C++ libraries for Qt3, KDE and Qt4. Think of it as a translator of sorts, or an "international" adapter that allows you to use your power cords in other nations with different plugs :) Ryan -- Ryan Rix Fedora KDE SIG Member, Phoenix AZ Ambassador, News KDE Beat writer New Mail address: phrkonaleash at gmail.com -> ry at n.rix.si !! http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://identi.ca/phrkonaleash XMPP: phrkonaleash at gmail.com | MSN: phrkonaleash at yahoo.com AIM: phrkonaleash | Yahoo: phrkonaleash IRC: PhrkOnLsh at irc.freenode.net/#srcedit,#plugaz,#fedora-kde and countless other FOSS channels. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100117/d044c2a5/attachment.bin
