From: Charlie Savage <cfis@...>
Date: 2005-08-20T01:58:53+09:00
Subject: Re: SWIG Ruby Memory Management

Hi Matt,

Yes, the bindings will be part of the GDAL release (and are in CVS now - 
although what is checked in is slightly out of date).  Right now there 
are a few people working on bindings for languages other than Python - I 
just picked up the Ruby one since I needed it.

Charlie


Lipper, Matthew wrote:
>> Charlie Savage schrieb:
>>> ...
>>> As can be seen in the code below, I have gone down the 
>> hashtable route 
>>> with a slight twist - I use a Ruby hash table from C to store these 
>>> mappings.  I did this instead of using a C++ map since I 
>> wanted to the 
>>> code to be just C and it was easier then implementing a hash table 
>>> from scratch in C.
>>> ...
>> I can't say anything about your code, cause I've never used 
>> SWIG yet, but it looks like you've done a very nice work. 
> 
> Ditto. 
> 
>> I just wanted to mention a hash table implementation in C which 
>> is used in the Ruby source code: 
>> just look at st.[hc].
>>
>> Regards, Pit
>>
>>
> 
> You mentioned you were writing a Ruby binding for GDAL. Are you going to
> make this publicly available?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matt
> 
>