Re: libgpiod v0.1: C library and command-line tools for controlling GPIOs

[Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bartosz Golaszewski,

2017-01-19 11:10 GMT+01:00 Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 2017-01-19 10:34 GMT+01:00 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski
>> <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to announce the first release of libgpiod. The project
>>> consists of a C library and a set of command-line tools for
>>> controlling GPIOs over the new character device interface.
>>
>> Nice!
>>
>> Have you thought about adding bindings for higher order
>> languages etc that I think can make GPIO programming a bliss?
>>
>
> I have thought about soooo many things I could do, but the problem is
> - as usual - time I can devote to this project. ;) Anyways: I'll
> welcome any contribution, so if you'll happen to have some time to do
> it, I'll surely include it.
>
>> I created some for Control Groups at a point, using ctypes:
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/cgfreak/code/ci/master/tree/pylibcgroup.py
>>
>
> FYI check out libsigrok - it generates python bindings from C++ using
> swig - maybe this would be a good approach to decrease the amount of
> work needed.

I'd really like to help here, I have a bit of previous experience with
python bindings to c and I don't think it's a tremendous amount of
work.
I'm planning to fork your project next weeks and trying to do something!

>
>> The point is not that Python would be so great (some think
>> so) more that this kind of stuff makes GPIOs so much more
>> accessible, apart from good old C.
>>
>
> Yep, certainly agree. This is definitely a feature I'd like to have in
> the future.
>
> Best regards,
> Bartosz Golaszewski
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