[Ns-developers] upcoming ns-3 merge plan

[Tom Henderson]

Gustavo Carneiro wrote:
> 2008/7/12 Tom Henderson <tomh at tomh.org <mailto:tomh at tomh.org>>:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     We have a lot of parallel development efforts ongoing, and I would
>     like to suggest that we start to move several things to ns-3-dev.
> 
>     1) Python:  Gustavo has been progressing the Python bindings based
>     on feedback from Mathieu, and they now seem to be ready to merge and
>     to start to get some user experience with them, so we'd like to
>     suggest merging them ASAP
> 
> 
> Python has been merged now.  Bring on the problem reports.. :P
> 
> I hope Python bindings does not interfere too much with NS-3 
> development.  If, by any chance, something breaks when compiling Python, 
> just report the problem and carry on with "./waf configure 
> --python-disable" ("./waf --python-disable" also works to disable Python 
> for a single build run).
> 
> Keep in mind that API coverage is not yet complete, and will be 
> gradually improved.  But testing of the Python bindings will be most 
> appreciated.
> 
> Happy testing! :-)

Gustavo, thanks for all of this work.  Can you point users to any 
examples or documentation at this time on how to get started with ns-3 
Python?

- Tom