YaST/Research/Automatic generation of YCP bindings

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Right now, if you want to access low level libraries from YCP code, you have two options:

• Create manual bindings, may be with help of /usr/share/YaST2/data/devtools/bin/generateYCPWrappers script. (used by package-bindings and libyui ycp bindings )
• Wrap your library using swig, and then generate perl bindings from that, and then use the module using YaST perl bindings (libstorage is accessed this way).

This problem could be solved in various ways:

• Create a SWIG module that allows ycp glue as output.

This approach would get all the swig parsing magic for free.

• Extend generateYCPWrappers so it could wrap any C library in a easy and automatic way. C++ is not required, as YCP is not object oriented.

Expected result:

Get package bindings or libstorage output which don't depend on perl bindings and are automatically updated if the target API changes.

Required knowledge: C++, YaST2, languages

Skill level: medium

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