Re: [Swig] SWIG 1.3.21 and SWIG_TypeQuery

On Wed, August 3, 2005 8:32 am, David James said:
> In the Subversion project, we use SWIG_TypeQuery to access type
> information on Python/SWIG objects from within a utility library in
> Subversion. In SWIG 1.3.20 and SWIG 1.3.21, the SWIG_TypeQuery
> function is not able to find all of Subversion's datatypes. (For some
> datatypes, such as Subversion's svn_fs_root_t * struct, it returns
> NULL.)

I responded to your other mail on subversion-dev@ mailing list, but I'll
just repeat the basics here.

Before 1.3.24/25, the runtime system was kinda brittle. The 1.3.25 code
is much easier to understand (and thus much easier to fix bugs). I
shudder at the prospect of trying to debug the old runtime system...

Moreover, SWIG now is a tool like lex or yacc, where the outputs from SWIG
can be compiled on any computer, independent of if SWIG is installed or
not. How to do that now is documented in the manual, in the Modules
section. Thus, only the developers need to have 1.3.25 installed, the
released tarball can include the generated wrapper code.

http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Modules.html

John

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Received on Fri Aug 5 06:05:52 2005