From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-01-13T14:06:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby binding for OpenDX?

In article <40036FDA.6080509@NASA.Gov>, Bil Kleb  <Bil.Kleb@NASA.Gov> wrote:
>I've googled and bladed, but to no avail...
>
>Is anyone working on (or have) a Ruby binding for OpenDX?
>
>OpenDX is IBM's open source visualization software package.
>See http://www.opendx.org/
>
>There is already a Python binding done with SWIG, viz,
>
>  http://people.freebsd.org/~rhh/py-opendx/
>

Wow, OpenDX looks cool.

What if you just 'borrow' the SWIG interface files (*.i) from the Python 
version and work from there?  Most of the work would already be done
it would just be a matter of 'Rubyfying' it.

I just downloaded the Python bindings.  It looks like the main changes 
would need to be made in DXL/DXL_additions.i and DXL/DXL_typemaps.i
The bulk of what needs to be done is to change the Python 
exception handling to Ruby exception handling.

Phil