some questions about Re-implement smbclient in python gsoc project

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Fri Mar 20 21:45:42 GMT 2009


Hi Allen,

allen wrote:
>   I am very interested in the Re-implement smbclient in python project which 
>
> applied to gsoc 2009 and want to apply as a student. I have some questions 
>
> about this project wana ask.
>
>   1). this project requires Python and C skills, is this project only convert 
> the C code to pure Python code? or need write some additional C code?
>   
No, the major part of it will be creating Python bindings for the 
existing C libraries, as you will need those bindings to implement 
smbclient in Python. The bindings should be in C, their matching tests 
in Python.
>   2). I am a freshman with samba4, and I check out the source code via Git, 
>
> but I am not quiet sure where is the code for smbclient of samba4, is it in 
>
> the source4/client directory, or somewhere else? did I miss something?
>   
Yes, the current code is in the source4/client directory.

Cheers,

Jelmer


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