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| author | Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@qt.io> | 2017-05-22 17:50:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@qt.io> | 2017-05-22 18:20:59 +0200 |
| commit | 9c333ade1a1b694fc6ce22e483f5de3e952c17ad (patch) | |
| tree | d3a2e41de3501f91ebfdc8ec81a80156597c2585 /sources/shiboken2/ApiExtractor/doc/overview.rst | |
| parent | 8f3761d8eac7780393382ab54dbdb487eb4df027 (diff) | |
move everying into sources/shiboken2 (5.9 edition)
in preparation for a subtree merge.
this should not be necessary to do in a separate commit, but git is a
tad stupid about following history correctly without it.
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diff --git a/sources/shiboken2/ApiExtractor/doc/overview.rst b/sources/shiboken2/ApiExtractor/doc/overview.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..471e2439b --- /dev/null +++ b/sources/shiboken2/ApiExtractor/doc/overview.rst @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +.. _gen-overview: + +********************** +API Extractor Overview +********************** + +The **API Extractor** library is used by the binding generator to parse headers +of a given library and merge this data with information provided by +typesystem (XML) files, resulting in a representation of how the API should be +exported to the chosen target language. The generation of source code for the +bindings is performed by specific generators using the API Extractor library. + +The API Extractor is based on QtScriptGenerator_ codebase. + +.. _QtScriptGenerator: http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/QtScript/Generator |