ryan <ryan@netidea.com> writes:
> I spent a bunch of more time looking into it. Matt is right, the .i
> files are out of sync with the library interfaces. From my work on it,
> I discovered i dont know enough about python or swig to really fix the
> out of sync Python bindings. the problem is that the svn_* interface is
> changing faster than the Python bindings. My solution was to use
> version 0.20.1. but before I gave up I made the following fixes which
> eased the problem a bit:
>
> Index: svn_fs.i
> ===================================================================
> --- svn_fs.i (revision 5501)
> +++ svn_fs.i (working copy)
> @@ -43,6 +43,10 @@
> svn_stream_t **
> };
>
> +%apply long long * OUTPUT {
> + svn_filesize_t *
> +};
> +
> /* and this is always an OUT param */
> %apply const char **OUTPUT { const char ** };
Hmmm. Your patch is different than Matt's patch, but you clearly know
about Matt's patch since your mail quotes it in response :-). Can you
say why to use one rather than the other? Did Matt's patch not solve
things for you, or is yours as effective but preferable because
simpler?
> But then there is a problem with the interface to svn_stream_read which
> I couldn't quite resolve, but here is a first stab which converts it to
> using the proper type:
>
> Index: util.i
> @@ -94,7 +95,7 @@
> /*
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> fix up the svn_stream_read() ptr/len arguments
> */
> -%typemap(python, in) (char *buffer, apr_size_t *len) ($*2_type temp) {
> +%typemap(python, in) (char *buffer, svn_filesize_t *len) ($*2_type
> temp) {
> if (!PyInt_Check($input)) {
> PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
> "expecting an integer for the buffer size");
>
>
>
> These are all in subversion/bindings/swig
>
> In any case, I got stuck here, and I gave up and used subversion 0.20.1,
> and I got ViewCVS working in no time flat.
Thanks for the patches. When you say "got stuck", what were the exact
symptoms you were seeing?
-K
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Received on Tue Apr 1 19:43:38 2003