Re: [Patch] Update SWIG support

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:27:21PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:47:04AM +0000, John Lenz wrote:
>...
> > As an added advantage to this, swig becomes a tool sort of like lex or
> > yacc. That is, some projects release the swig generated .c files with the
> > released tarball.
>...
> This would be nice. It would also diminish my disagreement with
> requiring 1.3.24. But I'm still not sure I'm in favor or requiring
> 1.3.24 even if this was implemented.

This would rock. Any developer that cares to build the SWIG bindings
from _source_control_ would need to upgrade to the latest SWIG.
Developers who use the tarballs or other releases could care less. Or
end users or developers who give a rats ass about the bindings can
just do nothing.

Hunh. Note that all of our releases would now support the bindings. No
need for SWIG to be installed at all. That greatly increases our
coverage of users who would have access to the bindings. That rocks.

I'm a big +1 on switching to 1.3.24 as soon as it gets released, and
then disable compatibility with all previous SWIG releases. It will
simplify a great many things and should not really impact people much
at all (unless you care about them and you build from source control).

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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