From: Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@...>
Date: 2001-12-06T01:24:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27561] Re: Ruby SWIG alive?

> When I check the buglist on source forge, there is no Ruby entry but there
> are a few bugs on Ruby that doesn't seem to be maintained.
> When I look at the Ruby SWIG homepage via RAA it states that the version
at
> the site is not maintained.
> Does this mean that Ruby SWIG is not maintained?

The SWIG/Ruby entry for the RAA is very much out of date. Ruby is now an
official SWIG module and is maintained by the SWIG development team (as far
as I can tell, Masaki Fukushima, the original SWIG/Ruby author, is not
actively involved in its development anymore). Be sure to download the
latest development version of SWIG (version 1.3.9) from the SourceForge
project page:

    http://swig.sourceforge.net

and use that one. Dave Beazley hopes to release SWIG 1.3.10 sometime in
January and that version will be even better for Ruby.

> That would be a pitty, because I was just so pleased about how well it
> seemed to work.

SWIG support for Ruby is very good indeed. If you're developing C/C++
extensions for Ruby, it's well worth the investment of your time to learn to
use SWIG. I'm using it to generate the wrapper code for FXRuby and I think
more and more Ruby extension writers are discovering and using SWIG as well.