From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2002-01-16T19:00:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Swig Ruby documentation mods.

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Alan Chen wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 09:18:18PM +0900, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> > I have been trying to use Swig Ruby recently, and in attempting to
> > understand it I have made some mods to the documentation, because others
> > will also want to use it.  I have put the modifications at
> > http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/Swig/index.html
> > Can anyone else using Swig with Ruby tell me if this is about right?
> > I have basically taken the stuff from the examples directory and aslo
> > knowledge from reading README.EXT, and put them together...
> > 	Hugh
>
> Have you thought about sending to the swig project?

Of course.  No feedback so far from swig-dev on this. But I need
feedback from the Ruby side of this, as clearly there are few Rubyists
on the Swig-dev list.  Also I have found a few more "niggles":

* if you don't use -module in the swig -ruby command then swig
  complains.  This is probably always correct, but needs mentioning.
* It is not clear what should be done about integrating several C
  functions into the same module.  Does this depend on one writing a .i
  file to connect them together?  How?
* Can you make swig roll the C functions into methods of a class, or
  must one do this via including a module.
* Can extconf.rb be made to make other preliminary stuff, that is not
  part of the external interface of the class?  Eg, can one make it run
  swig if necessary?
>
> --
> Alan Chen
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>
	Hugh