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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:24:21 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin SWIG package - who is using it, and for what?
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Max Bowsher schrieb:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> Max Bowsher schrieb:
>>
>>> I took over as packager of SWIG for Cygwin a while ago, and am now
>>> getting ready to produce a new package.
>>>
>>> SWIG seems to make incompatible changes with depressing frequency, so
>>> decisions on when to package a new version need to be made with much
>>> greater deliberation then other packages - to that end, I'd to get an
>>> idea of how much the current swig package is being used, and for what.
>>
>>
>> libming: for python and tcl
>>          not yet swig'ified (manual updates): java, php, perl, ruby.
> 
> 
> Ok, I had a look at the source (though the tarball that I looked at 
> seemed somewhat broken in the build system).
> 
> This swig binding seems to be just one module - rather than a set of 
> interacting modules. It is the support for multiple interacting modules 
> which is in turmoil, so I'm hoping ming will work fine with more recent 
> swig.

it's essential and very good to have for python at least. the success of 
pythin led to tcl support also.

> Do you have a cygwin package of ming that I could test a proposed new 
> cygwin swig package against?

http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/libming/

I have this package, but the its ltmain is broken, and I didn't find an 
easy fix yet. I can only compile the dll manually.

And there is still development done with the parser, so I waited.

-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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