From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-09-25T07:56:41+09:00
Subject: Re: swiggery

Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@ieee.org> wrote:
> Gennady Bystritsky wrote:
> > SWIG is especially good for a small task as you can get it done in no  
> > time to the extent you would spend tons of time doing manually. If  you 
> > care about rubyish API it is also doable, by using SWIG  directives like 
> > '%rename' in your interface description file. And the  type mapping is 
> > just fabulous.
> 
> SWIG is good for a small task if you know SWIG. I use %rename and 
> typemaps in my own applications, but I found the learning curve somewhat 
> steep--not worth climbing, in my experience, for a simple task like 
> Martin's. If Martin expects to do more work along those lines, the 
> learning time may be a good investment.

Did it by hand in the end - didn't take long at all (though longer than
it should have!). I might go back and try it with SWIG once I'm more
familiar with the hand route, since as you say it will be valuable
knowledge at some point - I think trying to learn both SWIG and C
extensions at the same time was a bit much, though.

martin