Re: Perl bindings for Subversion using SWIG

On 24 Jan, Dave Rolsky wrote:
 On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 pwd@mdtsoft.com wrote:
 
 I have used XS some but as the swig xxx.i files are already written
 it looks like swig should be not too hard.
 
 Yes and no. You still have to write the Perl-specific SWIG stuff, which
 is the hard part. Take a look at the existing swig files and you'll see
 that most of the ugly stuff is language-specific (Python, Java).

Well I started with the swig over the weekend. I was able to generate
the *wrap*.c file but am still working on getting it to compile.
The typemap stuff in SWIG is not much different from XS so my bigest problem
will be understanding some of the APIs for subversion, in addtion to not
having enough time to work on this.

I have a MakeMaker file started but it is not yet able to generate a Makefile
that will compile the code.
 
 If you aren't an expert with either SWIG or XS my guess is that Inline::C
 is probably the easiest way to do this. Of course, I idly tried working
 on a Subversion wrapper using Inline::C, and I got nowhere. But I really
 don't know much about C, and I didn't try all _that_ hard.
 
 My guess that the really hard part is simply grokking the subversion API,
 and understanding what needs exposure to Perl and what doesn't.
 
 
 -dave
 
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