Re: interested in py80211?

[Will Hawkins <hawkinsw@opentechinstitute.org>]

Thanks for posting about this effort. I would be very interested in
helping out on development. I will stay up-to-date on things via your
github page. Otherwise, please continue to keep the list updated on your
progress.

Will

On 07/12/2013 09:32 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 07/12/13 10:02, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> Yep, I'd totally be interested. Not that I don't have enough things on
>> my plate already ;-)
>>
>> On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 22:57 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>>> A common say in Linux arena is "when you have an itch, just scratch it".
>>
>> :-)
>>
>>> My itch is that tools like ifconfig and iw are great, but in an
>>> automated test environment it kind of sucks to parse output, which is
>>> confirmed by blurb from iw: "Do NOT screenscrape this tool, we don't
>>> consider its output stable.".
>>
>> Heh, yeah ...
>>
>>> Ever since my first contact with Python I tend to favor it over other
>>> scripting alternatives so I decided to scratch my itch with that and
>>> another old acquaintance called SWIG. With those I went to create
>>> py80211. A first attempt was to have SWIG create a wrapper API directly
>>> exposing the libnl-3 API, but that did not feel comfortable in a
>>> scripting environment. So the level of abstraction is a bit higher. It
>>> is just in a kick-off state (eg. can only send u32 attributes), but I
>>> decided to push it to github anyway.
>>
>> Another approach might be exposing the libnl APIs and then build a
>> higher-level library in python. Have you considered that? That might
>> make it useful to other users of netlink as well, while keeping a 'nice'
>> nl80211 API?
> 
> I am still at that fork in the road and not sure about it. The libnl
> project itself already has libnl stuff exposed in a python lib being the
> core api and route. So I could go and add genl support to that and build
> the high-level python library from there.
> 
> Regards,
> Arend
> 
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