So that the wrapper library can be installed with `pip install
<archive>`. The setup.py is Windows-specific, but CI only
produces Windows builds so that's not currently an issue.
The __init__.py re-exports the .pyd module so that the .pyd and
.dll can be installed into a subdirectory of site-packages for
neatness, and so that the installed module isn't just to work
around pip install being unable to install a pyd with no package.
Utumno experienced issues with Python modules built with more recent
versions of pybind11, which is why I tried to avoid this, but it looks
like it's necessary.
libloot is the renamed LOOT API. This adds a requirement on C++17,
and so MSVC 2017 on Windows.
pybind11 doesn't provide handling for std::filesystem::path, so wrapper
functions are used to perform the necessary one-way conversion without
having to expose the complexity on the Python side.
Significant changes include:
- The logging interface has changed, a callback can now be set
instead of an output file and verbosity, giving clients more
control.
- DatabaseInterface::EvalLists() has been removed.
- SimpleMessage now has a condition field.
This is a breaking change:
- LanguageCode has been removed
- The SimpleMessage Python class is now "SimpleMessage", from "Message"
- DatabaseInterface::sort_plugins() has been removed
- DatabaseInterface::get_plugin_messages() has been replaced with
DatabaseInterface::get_plugin_metadata() followed by
PluginMetadata::get_simple_messages()
- set_logging_verbosity(), set_log_file() and initialise_locale() have
been added
Not everything in the v0.11 API has been wrapped, to limit the potential
for future breaking changes.
The PluginTags struct and PluginCleanliness enum and their associated
functions have been re-implemented as part of the Python wrapper as they
were removed from the API due to no longer exposing any additional
functionality but are still useful.
Support for Linux builds is removed as LOOT's snapshot builds are no
longer reliably available, and Linux builds aren't published as part of
LOOT releases. Linux builds could easily be reinstated if LOOT API
binaries become reliably available again.
Oliver Hamlet
Daniel Nunes