From: Leon Torres <leon@...>
Date: 2002-08-05T05:14:38+09:00
Subject: Re: embed or swig?

On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Tom Sawyer wrote:

> i was just reading over a little of the swig docs and HOLY CODING! from
> my limited reading it appears that once a swig interface definition is
> created you can generate a wrapper for any of the supported scripting
> languages. is that true?
[snip]
> if what i gather from the above holds, then a wxWindows binding for ruby
> should be pretty sraight foward for anyone with ruby and swig
> experience. the same holds true for ParaGUI,

As a matter of fact, I attempted to swig a ParaGUI binding for Ruby
earlier this year. IIRC, all that had to be done was create a
Ruby-specific typemap for a callback function; the rest of the interface
definition was already in place, and language agnostic to boot. However,
it didn't work for some forgotten reason, so I decided to wait for the
Ruby swig module to mature a bit. From what other posters say about
swig's advances, maybe it's time to try again. :)

- Leon