From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-02-11T16:59:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Opinion: Ruby + OpenOffice.org

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:32:03 +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:24:59AM +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> 
>> > So we can figure out if it's worth going to extra mile for the C++ 
>> > bindings.
>> 
>> Why couldn't you just swig their C++ libraries?
>> http://www.swig.org
>> 
>> Swig would probably do about 80% of the wrapping work for you.
> 
> 
> I would have no idea of how to do this.
> 
> If I go the other route at least I can ask for help from the OOo 
> developers.

If you go the other route (writing the extension/embedding yourself), you
will make it much more difficult getting help from ruby-talk.
I bet this will also make it more difficult for an OOo developer to
understand.

Please use SWIG.

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Simon Strandgaard