| SWIG History |
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| <img src="images/history.png" alt="History"> |
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| Just the facts: |
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| <li>July, 1995. Dave develops SWIG while working in the Theoretical |
| Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Originally, it |
| was conceived as an extension building tool for a customized scripting |
| language that had been created for the Connection Machine 5. |
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| <li>January, 1996. SWIG rewritten in C++ at the University of Utah and expanded to cover Tcl, Perl, and Guile. |
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| <li>February, 1996. First alpha release. |
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| <li>September, 1996. Version 1.0 released. Support for Python added. |
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| <li>September, 1997. Version 1.1 released with a variety of improvements such as shadow classes. |
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| <li>February, 1998. SWIG1.1p5 released. |
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| <li>1997-1999. Various unsuccessful attempts to create SWIG2.0. |
| Aside from various second system effects, there were other |
| distractions such as a dissertation and searching for a job. All |
| of this work was abandoned although parts of it are found in |
| newer SWIG releases. |
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| <li>July, 1998. SWIG development moves to the University of Chicago. |
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| <li>January 1, 2000. Dave survives his most pleasant Y2K flight to Chicago O'Hare. |
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| <li>February 11, 2000. SWIG1.3 alpha released. This is the first in |
| a series of releases that slowly migrate most of SWIG's implementation |
| back to ANSI C. |
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| <li>March 1, 2000. SWIG1.3a2 released. |
| <li>June 18, 2000. SWIG1.3a3 released. |
| <li>September 4, 2000. SWIG1.3a4 released. |
| <li>September 22, 2000. SWIG1.3a5 released. |
| <li>July 9, 2001. SWIG-1.3.6 released. |
| <li>September 3, 2001. SWIG-1.3.7 released. Support for templates and better |
| handling of overloaded functions added. |
| <li>September 23, 2001. SWIG-1.3.8 released. |
| <li>September 25, 2001. SWIG-1.3.9 released. |
| <li>December 10, 2001. SWIG-1.3.10 released. |
| <li>January 31, 2002. SWIG-1.3.11 released. |
| <li>June 2, 2002. SWIG-1.3.12 released. |
| <li>June 17, 2002. SWIG-1.3.13 released. |
| <li>August 12, 2002. SWIG-1.3.14 released. |
| <li>September 9, 2002. SWIG-1.3.15 released. |
| <li>October 14, 2002. SWIG-1.3.16 released. |
| <li>November 22, 2002. SWIG-1.3.17 released. |
| <li>March 23, 2003. SWIG-1.3.18 released. |
| <li>March 28, 2003. SWIG-1.3.19 released. |
| <li>December 17, 2003. SWIG-1.3.20 released. |
| <li>January 17, 2004. SWIG-1.3.21 released. |
| <li>September 4, 2004. SWIG-1.3.22 released. |
| <li>November 11, 2004. SWIG-1.3.23 released. |
| <li>December 14, 2004. SWIG-1.3.24 released. |
| <li>June 11, 2005. SWIG-1.3.25 released. |
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