Re: Cygwin SWIG package - who is using it, and for what?

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Max Bowsher schrieb:
> Reini Urban wrote:
> > Max Bowsher schrieb:
> >
> > > I took over as packager of SWIG for Cygwin a while ago, and am now
> > > getting ready to produce a new package.
> > >
> > > SWIG seems to make incompatible changes with depressing frequency, so
> > > decisions on when to package a new version need to be made with much
> > > greater deliberation then other packages - to that end, I'd to get an
> > > idea of how much the current swig package is being used, and for what.
> >
> >
> > libming: for python and tcl
> >          not yet swig'ified (manual updates): java, php, perl, ruby.
>
>
> Ok, I had a look at the source (though the tarball that I looked at 
> seemed somewhat broken in the build system).
>
> This swig binding seems to be just one module - rather than a set of 
> interacting modules. It is the support for multiple interacting modules 
> which is in turmoil, so I'm hoping ming will work fine with more recent 
> swig.

it's essential and very good to have for python at least. the success of 
pythin led to tcl support also.

> Do you have a cygwin package of ming that I could test a proposed new 
> cygwin swig package against?

http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/libming/

I have this package, but the its ltmain is broken, and I didn't find an 
easy fix yet. I can only compile the dll manually.

And there is still development done with the parser, so I waited.

--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/