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| *** ANNOUNCE: SWIG 1.3.6 *** |
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| July 9, 2001 |
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| Overview |
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| We're pleased to announce the next installment of the SWIG1.3 |
| redevelopment effort. This release represents a new stable release of |
| SWIG, aiming to replace versions 1.1p5 and 1.1-883. It has been |
| derived from the reasonably stable release 1.3a5; many bugs have been |
| fixed since, the Java module has been brought back into action, and |
| the Guile module has been improved a lot. |
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| Availability: |
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| The release is available for download on Sourceforge at |
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| http://download.sourceforge.net/swig/ |
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| What's new? |
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| On the surface, this release still looks a lot like SWIG1.1p5 except |
| that a lot of bugs have been fixed and the language modules tend to |
| generate smaller and more efficient wrappers. New modules have also |
| been added to support Java, Ruby and Mzscheme. In addition, Python, Perl, |
| and Guile support has been enhanced to support new releases such as |
| Python1.6 and Perl5.6. |
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| Under the hood, you will find that this release is an almost complete |
| reimplementation of SWIG's internals. In fact the only code that |
| still remains from SWIG1.1 is the C/C++ parser and the language |
| modules (all of which have undergone significant changes as well). As |
| a result, a lot of minor improvements can be found throughout the |
| system and things that used to cause problems may now work (for |
| instance, pointers to functions are now supported). In addition, this |
| release incorporates a number of feature requests that have been made |
| on the mailing list. |
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| What's broken? |
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| As this is a work in progress, a number of features are still missing |
| or incomplete. The documentation system is still missing and won't be |
| reimplemented for some time. C++ programmers who make |
| extensive use of typemaps may encounter a few strange problems |
| (although SWIG will generate warning messages). |
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| We need your help! |
| ------------------ |
| Even if you are perfectly happy with SWIG1.1, we can use your |
| feedback. First, we like to know about compilation problems and other |
| issues concerning the building of SWIG. Second, if SWIG1.3 is unable |
| to compile your old interface files, we would like to get information |
| about the features you are using. This information will help us find |
| bugs in the SWIG1.3 release, develop techniques for supporting |
| backwards compatibility, and write documentation that addresses |
| specific issues related to migrating from SWIG1.1 to SWIG1.3. |
| Finally, we are still looking for volunteers to work on aspects of |
| SWIG development. Please send email to beazley@cs.uchicago.edu for |
| details. |
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| Please report problems with this release to swig-dev@cs.uchicago.edu. |
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| --- The SWIG Developers |
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| David Beazley |
| Thien-Thi Nguyen |
| Matthias Köppe |
| Masaki Fukushima |
| Loic Dachary |
| William Fulton |
