Version 1.3.28 (unreleased).
===========================

02/04/2006: mmatus
	    [Python] Add the %extend_smart_pointer() directive to extend
	    SWIG smart pointer support in python. 

	    For example, if you have a smart pointer as:
	    
	      template <class Type> class RCPtr {
	      public:
	        ...
	        RCPtr(Type *p);
		Type * operator->() const;
		...
	      };
	      
	    you use the %extend_smart_pointer directive as:
	    
	      %extend_smart_pointer(RCPtr<A>);
	      %template(RCPtr_A)  RCPtr<A>;
	    
	    then, if you have something like:

	      RCPtr<A> make_ptr();
	      int foo(A *);

	    you can do the following:

	      a = make_ptr();
	      b = foo(a);

            ie, swig will accept a RCPtr<A> object where a 'A *' is
            expected.

	    Also, when using vectors
	    
	      %extend_smart_pointer(RCPtr<A>);
	      %template(RCPtr_A) RCPtr<A>;
	      %template(vector_A) std::vector<RCPtr<A> >;
		
	    you can type

	      a = A();
	      v = vector_A(2)
	      v[0] = a

            ie, an 'A *' object is accepted, via implicit conversion, 
	    where a RCPtr<A> object is expected. Additionally

	      x = v[0]

	    returns (and sets 'x' as) a copy of v[0], making reference
	    counting possible and consistent.

	    %extend_smart_pointer is just a collections of new/old
	    tricks, including %typemaps and the new %implicitconv
	    directive.

02/02/2006: mgossage
            bugfix #1356577, changed double=>lua_number in a few places.
            added the std::pair wrapping

01/30/2006: wsfulton
            std::string and std::wstring member variables and global variables now use
            %naturalvar by default, meaning they will now be wrapped as expected in all languages.
            Previously these were wrapped as a pointer rather than a target language string.
            It is no longer necessary to add the following workaround to wrap these as strings:

		%apply const std::string & { std::string *}

            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY  ***

01/28/2006: mkoeppe
	    [Guile -scm] 
	    Add typemaps for handling of member function pointers.

01/24/2006: mmatus
	    - Better support for the %naturalvar directive, now it
	      works with the scripting languages as well as
	      Java/C#.
	      
	      Now, it can also be applied to class types:

	        %naturalvar std::string;
	        %include <std_string.i>
	      
              that will tell swig to use the the 'natural' wrapping
              mechanism to all std::string global and member
              variables.

	    - Add support for the %allowexcept feature along the
              scripting languages, which allows the %exception feature
              to be applied to the variable access methods. Also, add
              the %exceptionvar directive to specify a distintic
              exception mechanism only for variables.
	      
	    
	    - Add more docs for the %delobject directive to mark a method as a
	      destructor, 'disowning' the first argument. For example:

	        %newobject create_foo;
	        %delobject destroy_foo;

	        Foo *create_foo() { return new Foo(); }
	        void destroy_foo(Foo *foo) { delete foo; }

	      or in a member method as:

	        %delobject Foo::destroy;

	        class Foo {
	        public:
	          void destroy() { delete this;}

	        private:
	          ~Foo();
               };


01/24/2006: mgossage
            [Lua]
	    - Removed the type swig_lua_command_info & replace with luaL_reg
	      (which then broke the code), fixed this
	    - added an additional cast in the typemaps for enum's
	      due to the issue that VC.Net will not allow casting of
	      a double to an enum directly. Therefore cast to int then to enum
	      (thanks to Jason Rego for this observation)

01/16/2006: mmatus (Change disabled... will be back in CVS soon)
	    Add initial support for regexp via the external library
	    RxSpencer. SWIG doesn't require this library to compile
	    and/or run. But if you specify --with-rxspencer, and the
	    library is found during installation, then swig will use
	    it in three places:

	    - In %renames rules, via the new rxsmatch rules, for example:
	    	  
	    	  %rename("%(lowercase)",rxsmatch$name="GSL_.*") "";
	    	  %rename("%(lowercase)",rxsmatch$nodeType="enum GSL_.*") "";
	    	 
              rxsmatch is similar to the match rule, it just uses
              the RxSpencer regexp library to decide if there is a
              match with the provided regexp. As with the match
              rule, you can also use the negate rule notrxsmatch.

	    - In the %rename target name via the rxstarget option, for example:
	    		 
	    	  %rename("%(lowercase)",rxstarget=1) "GSL_.*";

	    	where the target name "GSL.*" is now understood as a
	    	regexp to be matched.  
	    	 
            - In the new encoder "rxspencer", which looks like:

	    	  %(rxspencer:[regexp][replace])s

	    	where "regexp" is the regular expression and "replace"
	    	is a string used as a replacement, where the @0,@1,...,@9
	    	pseudo arguments are used to represent the
	    	corresponding matching items in the reg expression.

	    	For example:
	    		      
	        %(rxspencer:[GSL.*][@0])s       <- Hello    -> 
	        %(rxspencer:[GSL.*][@0])s       <- GSLHello -> GSLHello
	        %(rxspencer:[GSL(.*)][@1])s     <- GSLHello -> Hello
	        %(rxspencer:[GSL(.*)][gsl@1])s  <- GSLHello -> gslHello

	    	Another example could be:

                %rename("%(lowercase)s",sourcefmt="%(rxspencer:[GSL_(.*)][@1])s",%$isfunction) "";

	    	which take out the prefix "GSL_" and returns all the
	    	function names in lower cases, as following:

	    	    void GSL_Hello();   ->   hello();
	    	    void GSL_Hi();      ->   hi();
	    	    const int GSL_MAX;  ->   GSL_MAX;  // no change, is not a function
	
	    We use the RxSpencer as an initial test bed to
            implemention while we decide which library will be
            finally added to swig.

            You can obtain the RxSpencer library from 
	    
	      http://arglist.com/regex (Unix)

	    or
	     
	      http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html (Windows)

	    Once installed, use "man rxspencer" to get more info
	    about the regexp format, or just google rxspencer.

	    Since now you can enable the rxsmatch rules (see above),
            the simple or '|' support for the match rules
            (01/12/2006: mmatus) is disabled. Still, if you have
            problems with the rxspencer library, you can re-enable
            the simple 'match or' support using
            -DSWIG_USE_SIMPLE_MATCHOR.
	  

01/16/2006: mmatus
	    Change the %rename predicates to use the prefix '%$', as in:
	    
	      %rename("%(utitle)s",%$isfunction,%$ismember) ""; 
	   	
            to avoid clashings with other swig macros/directives.

01/14/2006: cfisavage
            [Ruby]
	    Added support for Ruby bang! methods via a new %bang feature.
	    Bang methods end in exclamation points and indicate that the
	    object being processed will be modified in-place as 
	    opposed to being copied.

01/12/2006: cfisavage
            [Ruby]
	    Updated the Ruby module to automatically convert
	    method names to lower_case_with_underscores using the
	    new %rename functionality.

01/12/2006: mmatus
	    - Add aliases for 'case' encoders used with %rename/%namewarn

	      %(uppercase)s   hello_world -> HELLO_WORLD
	      %(lowercase)s   HelloWorld  -> helloworld
	      %(camelcase)s   hello_world -> HelloWorld
	      %(undercase)s   HelloWorld  -> hello_world


01/12/2006: mmatus
	    - Add the -dump_parse_module and -dump_parse_top options,
	    which are similar to -dump_module and -dump_top, but they
	    dump the node trees just after parsing, showing only the 
	    attributes visible at the parsing stage, and not the added
	    later in typemap.cxx, allocate.cxx, lang.cxx or elsewhere.
	    
	    Besides debugging porpuses, these options are very useful
	    if you plan to use %rename in an "advance way", since it
	    shows only and all the node's attributes you can use
	    inside the match rules.


01/12/2006: mmatus
	    - Add predicates to %rename, so, you don't need to
	      remember, for example, how to match a member function.

	      Now it is easy, for example to use the 'utitle' encoder 
	      in all the member methods, you type:

	        %rename("%(utitle)s",%isfunction,%ismember) "";

	      or to ignore all the enumitems in a given class:

	        %rename("$ignore", %isenumitem, %classname="MyClass") "";  

	      Available predicates are (see swig.swg):

                %isenum         
		%isenumitem     
		%isaccess       
		%isclass        
		%isextend       
		%isextend       
		%isconstructor  
		%isdestructor   
		%isnamespace    
		%istemplate     
		%isconstant     
					
		%isunion        
		%isfunction     
		%isvariable     
		%isimmutable    
					
		%isstatic       
		%isfriend       
		%istypedef      
		%isvirtual      
		%isexplicit     
		%isextern       
					
		%ismember       
		%isglobal 
		%innamespace

		%ispublic    
		%isprotected 
		%isprivate   
				     
		%classname   

              These predicates correspond to specific 'match'
              declarations, which sometimes are not as evident as the
              predicates names.


            - Add the or '|' operation in %rename match, for
              example to capitalize all the constants (%constant or
              const cdecl):

                 %rename("%(upper)s",match="cdecl|constant",%isimmutable) "";
                


01/12/2006: mgossage
	    -	Partial fixed of errors under C89, bug #1356574
	    	(converted C++ style comments to C style)
	    -	Added patches from neomantra@users.sf.net #1379988 and #1388343
	    	missing a 'return' statement for error conditions
	    	also updated the %init block bug #1356586
		 
01/10/2006: mmatus
	    - Add the 'utitle' encoder, as an example of how to add
	      your own encoder. I added the encoder method in misc.c 
	      but developers can add others, the same way, inside any
	      target language.
	      
	      Well, 'utitle' is the reverse of 'ctitle', ie:

	         %rename("%(ctitle)s") camel_case;  -> CamelCase;
	         %rename("%(utitle)s") CamelCase;   -> camel_case;
		 

01/10/2006: cfisavage
            [Ruby]
            Updated Ruby Exception handling.  Classes that are specified in throws clauses, 
            or are marked as %exceptionclass, are now inherited from rb_eRuntimeError. 
            This allows instances of these classes to be returned to Ruby as exceptions. 
            Thus if a C++ method throws an instance of MyException, the calling Ruby 
            method will get back a MyException object.  To see an example, 
            look at ruby/examples/exception_class.

01/10/2006: mmatus
	    
            - Add the %catches directive, which complements the %exception
	    directive in a more automatic way. For example, if you have

                int foo() throw(E1);

            swig generates the proper try/catch code to dispatch E1.
	    
	    But if you have:


	          int barfoo(int i) {
                    if (i == 1) {
	               throw E1();
                    } else {
	              throw E2();
                    }
                    return 0;
                  }

            ie, where there is no explicit exception specification in the decl, you 
	    end up doing:
		  
               %exception barfoo {			
	         try {				
	           $action			
	         } catch(E1) {	... }				  
	         } catch(E2) {	... }				  
	       }				
	    
	    which is very tedious. Well, the %catches directive defines
	    the list of exceptions to catch, and from swig:
 	
	       %catches(E1,E2) barfoo(int i);
	       int barfoo(int i);

            is equivalent to 

	       int barfoo(int i) throw(E1,E2);

	    Note, however, that the %catches list doesn't have to
	    correspond to the C++ exception specification. For example, if you
	    have:

		struct E {};
		struct E1 : E {};
		struct E2 : E {};

  	        int barfoo(int i) throw(E1,E2);

            you can define
	        
		%catches(E) barfoo(int i);
	
	    and swig will generate an action code equivalent to

	         try {				
	           $action			
	         } catch(E &_e) { 
		   <raise _e>;
		 }	

            Of course, you still have to satisfy the C++ restrictions,
	    and the catches list must be compatible (not the same)
	    as the original list of types in the exception specification.

	    Also, you can now specify that you want to catch the
	    unknown exception '...', for example:

	       %catches(E1,E2,...) barfoo(int);

	    In any case, the %catches directive will emit the
	    code to convert into the target language error/exception
            using the 'throws' typemap.

	    For the '...' case to work, you need to
	    write the proper typemap in your target language. In the
	    UTL, this looks like:

	      %typemap(throws) (...) {
	        SWIG_exception(SWIG_RuntimeError,"unknown exception");
              }


01/05/2006: wsfulton
            [Java] Fix unsigned long long and const unsigned long long & typemaps
            - Bug #1398394  with patch from Dries Decock

01/06/2006: mmatus
	    Add 'named' warning codes, now in addition to:
	    
	      %warnfilter(813);
	   
	    you can use

	      %warnfilter(SWIGWARN_JAVA_MULTIPLE_INHERITANCE);

	    just use the same code name found in  Source/Include/swigwarn.h 
	    plus the 'SWIG' prefix.

	    If a developer adds a new warning code, the Lib/swigwarn.swg file
            will be generated when running the top level make.

01/05/2006: cfisavage
            [Ruby]
	    Reimplemented object tracking for Ruby.  The new implementation works
	    by expanding the swig_class structure for Ruby by adding a trackObjects
	    field.  This field can be set/unset via %trackobjects as explained
	    in the Ruby documentation.  The new implementation is more robust
	    and takes less code to implement.
		
01/05/2006: wsfulton
            Fix for %extend and static const integral types, eg:

              class Foo {
                public:
                %extend {
                    static const int bar = 42;
                }
              }; 

12/30/2005: mmatus

	  - Add info for old and new debug options:
              
            -dump_top       - Print information of the entire node tree, including system nodes    
     	    -dump_module    - Print information of the module node tree, avoiding system nodes     
     	    -dump_classes   - Print information about the classes found in the interface	       
     	    -dump_typedef   - Print information about the types and typedefs found in the interface
     	    -dump_tags      - Print information about the tags found in the interface	       
     	    -debug_typemap  - Print information for debugging typemaps			       
            -debug_template - Print information for debugging templates			        

	  - Add the fakeversion. If you have a project that uses
            configure/setup.py, or another automatic building system
            and requires a specific swig version, let say 1.3.22 
	    you can use:

	       SWIG_FEATURES="-fakeversion 1.3.22"

	     or
 
               swig -fakeversion 1.3.22

             and then swig -version will report 1.3.22 instead of the
             current version.

	     Typical use would be

	       SWIG_FEATURES="-fakeversion 1.3.22" ./configure 	     

12/30/2005: mmatus

	  - Add option/format support to %rename and %namewarn.	
	    Now %namewarn can force renaming, for example:

	      %namewarn("314: import is a keyword",rename="_%s") "import";
	    
	    and rename can also support format forms:

	       %rename("swig_%s") import;

	    Now, since the format is processed via swig Printf, you
	    can use encoders as follows:

	       %rename("%(title)s")  import;     -> Import
	       %rename("%(upper)s")  import;     -> IMPORT
	       %rename("%(lower)s")  Import;     -> import
	       %rename("%(ctitle)s") camel_case; -> CamelCase
	       
	    This will allow us to add more encoders, as the 
	    expected one for regular expressions. 

	  - Add the above 'ctitle' encoder, which does the camel case:

	        camel_case -> CamelCase
  
	  - Also, while we get the regexp support, add the 'command' encoder,
            you can use it as follows

               %rename("%(command:sed -e 's/\([a-z]\)/\U\\1/' <<< )s") import; 

	    then swig will popen the command
	    
		"sed -e 's/\([a-z]\)/\U\\1/' <<< import"
		
            see below for anonymous renames for better examples.		

          - The rename directive now also allows:

	    - simple match: only apply the rename if a type match
	      happen, for example

		 %rename(%(title)s,match="enumitem") hello;

		 enum Hello {
		   hi, hello  ->  hi, Hello  
		 };
		 int hello()  ->  hello; 

	    - extended match: only apply the rename if the 'extended attribute' match
	      occurred, for example: 

	         // same as simple match 		
		 %rename(%(title)s,match$nodeType="enumitem") hello; 

		 enum Hello {
		   hi, hello  ->  hi, Hello  
		 };

	       Note that the symbol '$' is used to define the attribute name in
	       a 'recursive' way, for example:

		 // match only hello in 'enum Hello'
		 %rename(%(title)s,match$parentNode$type="enum Hello") hello; 

		 enum Hello {
 		   hi, hello  ->  hi, Hello   // match
		 };

		 enum Hi {
 		   hi, hello  ->  hi, hello   // no match
		 };

               here, for Hello::hi, the "parentNode" is "Hello", and its "type"
               is "enum Hello".
	       
	       
            - Anonymous renames: you can use 'anonymous' rename directives, for example: 

	         // rename all the enum items in Hello
		 %rename(%(title)s,match$parentNode$type="enum Hello") ""; 

		 enum Hello {
 		   hi, hello  ->  Hi, Hello   // match both
		 };

		 enum Hi {
 		   hi, hello  ->  hi, hello   // no match
		 };
		 
	         // rename all the enum items 
		 %rename(%(title)s,match$nodeType="enumitem") ""; 

	         // rename all the items in given command (sloooow, but...)
		 %rename(%(command:<my external cmd>)s) ""; 

	
	      Anonymous renames with commands can be very powerful, since you
	      can 'outsource' all the renaming mechanism (or part of it) to an
	      external program:
	      
	        // Uppercase all (and only) the names that start with 'i'
	        %rename("%(command:awk '/^i/{print toupper($1)}' <<<)s") "";   
	       
	        int imported() -> IMPORTED;
	        int hello()    -> hello

	      Note that if the 'command' encoder returns an empty string, swig
	      understands that no rename is necessary.

	      Also note that %rename 'passes' the matched name. For example, in
	      this case

	        namespace ns1 {
		  int foo();
		}

	        namespace ns2 {
		  int bar();
		}

	      the external program only receives "foo" and "bar". If needed,
	      however, you can request the 'fullname' 
	       	
	        %rename("%(command:awk 'awk '/ns1::/{l=split($1,a,"::"); print toupper(a[l])}'' <<<)s",fullname=1) "";   
                
		ns1::foo -> FOO
		ns2::bar -> bar	
	
	    - Mixing encoders and matching: of course, you can do mix commands
	      and match fields, for example:

	        %rename("%(<my encoder for fncs>)",match="cdecl") "";
	        %rename("%(<my encoder for enums>)",match="enumitem") "";
	        %rename("%(<my encoder for enums inside a class>)",match="enumitem",
		        match$parentNode$parentNode$nodeType="class") "";
		
	      Use "swig -dump_parse_module" to see the attribute names you can use to
	      match a specific case.
	
            - 'sourcefmt' and 'targetfmt': sometimes you need to
              process the 'source' name before comparing, for example

	        %namewarn("314: empty is a keyword",sourcefmt="%(lower)s") "empty";

	      then if you have

	        int Empty();  // "Empty" is the source 
		
	      you will get the keyword warning since 'Empty' will be
	      lower cased, via the sourcefmt="%(lower)s" option,
	      before been compared to the 'target' "empty".

	      There is an additional 'targetfmt' option to process the
	      'target' before comparing.

	    - complementing 'match': you can use 'notmatch', for example
	      
	        %namewarn("314: empty is a keyword",sourcefmt="%(lower)s",notmatch="namespace") "empty";

	      here, the name warning will be applied to all the symbols except namespaces.
	    
      	
12/30/2005: mmatus

	  - Add initial support for gcj and Java -> <target language> mechanism.

	    See	examples in:  
	  
		Examples/python/java
		Examples/ruby/java
		Examples/tcl/java

            to see how to use gcj+swig to export java classes into
            python/ruby/tcl.
	    
	    The idea is to put all the common code for gcj inside

	          Lib/gcj

            and localize specific types such as jstring, as can be found
            in

	         Lib/python/jstring.i
	         Lib/ruby/jstring.i
	         Lib/tcl/jstring.i

            Using the UTL, this is very easy, and the perl version for
            jstring.i will be next.
		 	    

12/29/2005: mmatus
	  - Add the copyctor feature/directive/option to enable the automatic
	    generation of copy constructors. Use as in:

	      %copyctor A;

	      struct A {

              };

	    then this will work

	      a1 = A();
	      a2 = A(a1);

	    Also, since it is a feature, if you just type

	      %copyctor;

	    that will  enable the automatic generation for all the
	    classes. It is also equivalent to

	       swig -copyctor -c++ ...

	    Notes: 

	    1.- The feature only works in C++ mode.

	    2.- The automatic creation of the copy constructor will
	        usually produce overloading. Hence, if the target
	        language doesn't support overloading, a special name
	        will be used (A_copy).
	    
	    3.- For the overloading reasons above, it is probably not
                a good idea to use the flag when, for example, you are
		using keywords in Python.

            4.- The copyctor automatic mechanism follows more or less
	        the same rules as the default constructor mechanism,
	        i.e., a copy constructor will not be added if the
	        class is abstract or if there is a pertinent non-public 
		copy ctor in the class or its hierarchy.

		Hence, it might be necessary for you to complete the
		class declaration with the proper non-public copy ctor
		to avoid a wrong constructor addition.
		
          - Fix features/rename for templates ctor/dtor and other
            things around while adding the copyctor mechanism.
	    

12/27/2005: mmatus
	  - Add the 'match' option to typemaps. Assume you have:

	      %typemap(in) SWIGTYPE * (int res) {..}
	      %typemap(freearg) SWIGTYPE * { if (res$argnum) ...}

	    then if you do
 
	      %typemap(in) A * {...}

	    swig will 'overload the 'in' typemap, but the 'freearg' 
	    typemap will be also applied, even when this is wrong. The old
	    solutions is to write:

	      %typemap(in) A * {...}
  	      %typemap(freeag) A * "";

	    overload 'freearg' with an empty definition.

	    The problem is, however, there is no way to know you need
	    to do that until you start getting broken C++ code, or
	    worse, broken runtime code.

	    The same applies to the infamous 'typecheck' typemap,
	    which always confuses people, since the first thing you do
	    is to just write the 'in' typemap.

	    The 'match' option solves the problem, and if instead you write:

	      %typemap(in) SWIGTYPE * (int res) {..}
	      %typemap(freearg,match="in") SWIGTYPE * { if (res$argnum) ...}
	      %typemap(typecheck,match="in",precedence...) SWIGTYPE * {...}
	    
	    it will tell swig to apply the 'freearg/typecheck'
	    typemaps only if they 'match' the type of the 'in'
	    typemap. The same can be done with other typemaps as:

	      %typemap(directorout) SWIGTYPE * {...}
	      %typemap(directorfree,match="directorout") SWIGTYPE * {...}
	    

12/27/2005: mmatus
	  - Add the 'naturalvar' option/mode/feature to treat member
	    variables in a more natural way, ie, similar to the global
	    variable behavior.

	    You can use it in a global way via the command line

	      swig -naturalvar ...

	    or the module mode option
 
	      %module(naturalvar=1)

	    both forms make swig treat all the member variables in the
	    same way it treats global variables. 

	    Also, you can use it in a case by case approach for
	    specific member variables using the directive form:

	      %naturalvar Bar::s;
	    
	    Then, in the following case for example:

	       std::string s;
	       struct Bar {
		 std::string s;
               };

            you can do:  

	       b = Bar()
	       b.s ="hello"
	       cvar.s = "hello"
	       
	       if (b.s != cvar.s):
	          raise RuntimeError

		  
            This is valid for all the languages, and the
            implementation is based on forcing the use of the 
            const SWIGTYPE& (C++)/SWIGTYPE (C) typemaps for the
            get/set methods instead of the SWIGTYPE * typemaps.
	    Hence, for 'naturalvar' to work, each target language
	    must implement 'typemap(in/out) const Type&' properly.

	    The 'naturalvar' option replaces or makes workarounds such  as:
	    
		%apply const std::string & { std::string *}

            unnecessary.

	    Note1: If your interface has other kinds of workarounds to
	    deal with the old 'unnatural' way to deal with member
	    variables (returning/expecting pointers), the
	    'naturalvar' option could break them.
	    
	    Note2: the option has no effect on unnamed types, such
	    as unnamed nested unions.
	    
	  
12/27/2005: mmatus
	  - Add more 'expressive' result states for the typemap
            libraries.

	    In the past, for scripting languages, you would do checking something like:

	      if (ConvertPtr(obj,&vptr,ty,flags) != -1) {
	        // success
              } else {
	        // error
	      }

	    Now the result state can carry more information,
	    including:

	      - Error state: like the old -1/0, but with error codes from swigerrors.swg.

	         int res = ConvertPtr(obj,&vptr,ty,flags);
		 if (SWIG_IsOK(res)) {
		   // success code
                 } else {
		   SWIG_Error(res); // res carries the error code
                 }

	      - Cast rank: when returning a simple successful
                conversion, you just return SWIG_OK, but if you need
                to do a 'cast', you can add the casting rank, ie:
		
		  if (PyFloat_Check(obj)) {
		    value = PyFloat_AsDouble(obj);
		    return SWIG_OK;
		  } else if (PyInt_Check(obj)) {
		    value = (double) PyInt_AsLong(obj);
		    return SWIG_AddCast(SWIG_OK);		    
                  }
		
		later, the casting rank is used to properly dispatch
		the overloaded function, for example. This of course
		requires your language to support and use the new
		dispatch cast/rank mechanism (Now mainly supported in
		perl and python, and easily expandable to ruby and tcl).
	      
	  - [UTL] Add support for the new 'expressive' result states.

12/27/2005: mmatus
	  - Add support for the C++ implicit conversion mechanism, which
            required some modifications in parser.y (to recognize
            'explicit') and overload.cxx (to replace $implicitconv as
            needed).
	    
	    Still, real support in each target language requires each
	    target language to be modified. Python provides an example,
            see below.


	  - Add support for native C++ implicit conversions, ie, if you
            have

	        %implicitconv A;

	        struct A {
		   int ii;
		   A() {ii = 1;}
		   A(int) {ii = 2;}
		   A(double) {ii = 3;}
		   explicit A(char *s) {ii = 4;}
		};
		
		int get(const A& a) {return a.ii;}

            you can call:

	        a = A()
	        ai = A(1)
	        ad = A(1.0)
	        as = A("hello")
		
		# old forms
	        get(a)  -> 1
	        get(ai) -> 2
	        get(ad) -> 3
	        get(as) -> 4
		
		#implicit conversions
	        get(1)       -> 2
	        get(1.0)     -> 3
	        get("hello") -> Error, explicit constructor

            Also, as in C++, now implicit conversions are supported in
            variable assigments, and if you have:

	      A ga;
	      struct Bar {
	        A a;
              };

	    you can do:

	      cvar.ga = A(1)
	      cvar.ga = 1
	      cvar.ga = 1.0
	      cvar.ga = A("hello") 
	      cvar.ga = "hello" -> error, explicit constructor

	      b = Bar()
	      b.a = A("hello")
	      b.a = 1
	      b.a = 1.0
	      b.a = "hello" -> error, explicit constructor

	    Note that the last case, assigning a member var directly, 
	    also requires the 'naturalvar' option.

	    This support now makes the old '%implicit' macro, which
	    was found in 'implicit.i' and it was fragile in many ways,
	    obsolete, and you should use the new '%implicitconv'
	    directive instead.

	    Note that we follow the C++ conventions, ie, in the
	    following the implicit conversion is allowed:

		int get(A a) {return a.ii;}
		int get(const A& a) {return a.ii;}
	    
	    but not in these cases:

		int get(A *a) {return a->ii;}
		int get(A& a) {return a.ii;}
		
	    Also, it works for director methods that return a by value
	    result, ie, the following will work:

                virtual A get_a() = 0;

		def get_a(self):
		   return 1

            but not in this case:

                virtual const A& get_a() = 0;
                virtual A& get_a() = 0;
                virtual A* get_a() = 0;
	    
	  Notes:

	  - the implicitconv mechanism is implemented by directly
	    calling/dispatching the python constructor, triggering a
	    call to the __init__method. Hence, if you expanded the
	    __init__ method, like in:

	        class A:
		   def __init__(self,args):
		      <swig code>
		      <my code here>

            then 'my code' will also be executed.
	    
	  - Since the %implicitconv directive is a SWIG feature, if you type:
	    
  	       %implicitconv;  

	    that will enable implicit conversion for all the classes in
	    your module.

	    But if you are worried about performance, maybe that will be
	    too much, especially if you have overloaded methods, since
	    to resolve the dispatching problem, python will efectively
	    try to call all the implicit constructors as needed.

	  - For the same reason, it is highly recommended that you use
            the new 'castmode' when mixing implicit conversion and
            overloading.

	 - [python] The %implicit directive is declared obsolete, and
           you should use %implicitconv instead. If you include
	   the implicit.i file, a warning will remind you of this.

	   Note: Since %implicit is fragile, just replacing it by
	   %implicitconv could lead to different behavior. Hence, we
	   don't automatically switch from to the other, and the user
	   must migrate to the new %implicitconv directive manually.


12/26/2005: wsfulton
            [C#]
            Modify std::vector wrappers to use std::vector::value_type as this is
            closer to the real STL declarations for some methods, eg for push_back().
            Fixes some compilation errors for some compilers eg when the templated
            type is a pointer.

            [Java]
            std::vector improvements - a few more methods are wrapped and specializations are
            no longer required. The specialize_std_vector macro is no longer needed (a
            warning is issued if an attempt is made to use it).

12/26/2005: wsfulton
            [Java, C#]
            Add in pointer reference typemaps. This also enables one to easily wrap
            std::vector<T> where T is a pointer.

12/24/2005: efuzzyone
            [CFFI] The cffi module for SWIG:
              - Fully supports C, but provides limited supports for C++, in
               particular C++ support for templates and overloading needs to
               be worked upon. 

12/23/2005: mmatus
	    [python] Add the castmode that allows the python
	    type casting to occur.

	    For example, if you have 'int foo(int)', now
	    
	      class Ai():
	         def __init__(self,x): 
		    self.x = x
	         def __int__(self): 
		    return self.x

	      foo(1)   // Ok
	      foo(1.0) // Ok
	      foo(1.3) // Error
	      a = Ai(4)
              foo(ai)  // Ok

            The castmode, which can be enabled either with the
            '-castmode' option or the %module("castmode") option, uses
            the new cast/rank dispatch mechanism. Hence, now if you
            have 'int foo(int); int foo(double);', the following works
            as expected:

	      foo(1)   -> foo(int)
	      foo(1.0) -> foo(double)
	      ai = Ai(4)
	      foo(ai)  -> foo(int)

	    Note1: the 'castmode' could disrupt some specialized
	    typemaps. In particular, the "implicit.i" library seems to
	    have problem with the castmode. But besides that one, the
	    entire test-suite compiles fine with and without the
	    castmode.

 	    Note2: the cast mode can't be combined with the fast
	    dispatch mode, ie, the -fastdispatch option has no effect
	    when the cast mode is selected. The penalties, however,
	    are minimum since the cast dispatch code is already based
	    on the same fast dispatch mechanism.

	    See the file overload_dispatch_cast_runme.py file for
	    new cases and examples.

12/22/2005: mmatus
	    Add the cast and rank mechanism to dispatch overloading
	    functions. The UTF supports it now, but for each language
	    it must be decided how to implement and/or when to use it.

	    [perl] Now perl uses the new cast and rank dispatch
	    mechanism, which solves all the past problems known 
	    in perl, such as the old '+ 1' problem:

	        int foo(int);
	    
		$n = 1
                $n = $n + 1
                $r = foo(n)

            also works:

                 foo(1);
                 foo("1");
                 foo(1.0);
                 foo("1.0");

             but fails

                 foo("l");

             and when overloading  foo(int) and foo(double);

                 foo(1) -> foo(int)
                 foo(1.0) -> foo(double)
                 foo("1") -> foo(int)
                 foo("1.0") -> foo(double)
                 foo("l") -> error
		 foo($n) -> foo(int)  for good perl versions
		 foo($n) -> foo(double)  for old bad perl versions

	     when overloading foo(int), foo(char*) and foo(double):

                 foo(1) -> foo(int)
                 foo(1.0) -> foo(double)
                 foo("1") -> foo(char*)
                 foo("1.0") -> foo(char*)
                 foo("l") -> foo(char*)

             Note: In perl the old dispatch mechanism was broken,
             so, we don't provide an option to enable the old one
	     since, again, it was really really broken.

	     See 'overload_simple_runme.pl' for more cases and tests.

	     PS: all the old known issues are declared resolved, any
	     new "problem" that could be discovered is declared, 
	     a priori, as "features" of the new dispatch mechanism
	     (until we find another solution at least).
	     
	     
            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY  ***

	    As with the introduction of the UTF, some things could
	    now start to work as expected, and people used to deal or
	    workaround previous bugs related to the dispatch
	    mechanism, could see now a difference in perl behavior.

12/21/2005: mmatus
	  - The '-nodefault' flag (pragma and feature) now generates
	    a warning, and recommends to use the explicit
	    -nodefaultctor and  -nodefaultdtor options.
	    
	    The reason to split the 'nodefault' behavior is that, in
	    general, ignoring the default destructor generates memory
	    leaks in the target language. Hence, is too risky just to
	    disable both the default constructor and destructor
	    at the same time.

	    If you need to disable the default destructor, it is
	    also recommended you use the directive form:

	       %nodefaultdtor  MyVerySpecialClass;

            for specific classes, and always avoid using the global
            -nodefault and -nodefaultdtor options.
	    
12/21/2005: wsfulton
            [Java, C#]
            Fix incorrect code generation when the intermediary classname is changed
            in the module directive from its default. For example:

              %module(jniclassname="myimclassnewname") "mymodule" // Java
              %module(imclassname="myimclassnewname") "mymodule" // C#

            Add in new special variable $imclassname. See docs.

12/17/2005: mmatus
	  [Python]
	  - Add the -aliasobj0/-noaliasobj0 options to use with
	    -fastunpack and/or -O and old typemaps that use 'obj0'
	    directly.

	    So, if you compile your code using -O and get errors about
	    the undeclared 'obj0' variable, run again using 

		swig -O -aliasobj0 -python ....
	    
	    For new typemaps, never use 'obj0' directly, if needed,
	    use the '$self' name that will be properly  expanded to
	    'obj0' (nofastunpack) or 'swig_obj[0]' (fastunpack). 
  
	    If you have no idea what I am talking about, better, that
	    means you have no typemap with this problem.


12/14/2005: mmatus 	 
	  [Python]
	  - Add the -fastunpack/-nofastunpack options to enable/disable
	    the use of the internal UnpackTuple method, instead of
	    calling the one from the python C API.

	    The option -O now also implies -fastunpack.
	    

12/11/2005: mmatus 
	  [Python]
	  - Add the -proxydel/-noproxydel options to enable/disable
	    the generation of proxy/shadow __del__ methods, even
	    when now they are redundant, since they are empty.
	    However, old interfaces could rely on calling them.

	    The default behavior is to generate the __del__ methods
	    as in 1.3.27 or older swig versions.

	    The option -O now also implies -noproxydel.

12/10/2005: mmatus 
	  [UTF]
          - Fix unneccessary calls to SWIG_TypeQuery for 'char *'
	    and 'wchar_t *', problem found by Clay Culver while
	    profiling the PyOgre project.

	  
	  [Python] 
	  - Add the -dirvtable/-nodirvtable to enable/disable
	    a pseudo virtual table used for directors, avoiding
	    the need to resolve the python method at each call.
	    
	  - Add the -safecstrings/-nosafecstrings options to
	    enable/disable the use of safe conversions from PyString
	    to char *. Python requires you to never change the internal
	    buffer directly, and hence 'safectrings' warranties that
	    but returning a copy of the internal python string buffer.

	    The default, as in previous releases, is to return a
	    pointer to the buffer (nosafecstrings), so, it is the user's
	    responsibility to avoid its modification.
	    
	  - Add the -O option to enable all the optimization options
	    at once, initially equivalent to

	    -modern -fastdispatch -dirvtable -nosafecstrings -fvirtual

12/08/2005: mmatus 

	  - Add the -fastdispatch option (fastdispatch feature). This
	    enables the "fast dispatch" mechanism for overloaded
	    methods provided by Salvador Fandi~no Garc'ia (#930586).

	    The resulting code is smaller and faster since less type
	    checking is performed. However, the error messages you
	    get when the overloading is not resolved could be
	    different from what the traditional method returns.

	    With the old method you always get an error such as 

	       "No matching function for overloaded ..."

            with the new method you can also get errors such as

	       "Type error in argument 1 of type ..."

	    See bug report #930586 for more details.
            
  	    So, this optimization must be explicitly enabled by users.

	    The new mechanism can be used as:

              swig -fastdispatch

            or using the feature form

	      %feature("fastdispatch") method;
            or
              %fastdispatch method;
	    

12/06/2005: mmatus 

          - Several memory and speed improvements, specially for
	    templates. Now swig is up to 20 faster than before for
	    large template interfaces, such as the std_containers.i
	    and template_matrix.i files in the python test-suite.

	    Memory footprint is also reduced in consideration of small
	    pcs/architectures.

	  - add commandline options -cpperraswarn and -nocpperraswarn" to force
            the swig preprocessor to treat the #error directive as a #warning.
	    
	    the pragmas

               #pragma SWIG cpperraswarn=1
               #pragma SWIG cpperraswarn=0
	       
	    are equivalent to the command line options, respectively.
             

12/06/2005: mmatus
	    [Python] The generated code is now more portable, especially
	    for Windows. Following 

                 http://www.python.org/doc/faq/windows.html

            Py_None is never accessed as a structure, plus other
            tricks mentioned there.

12/06/2005: mmatus
	    [Python] Added initial support for threads based in the
	    proposal by Joseph Winston.

	    The user interface is as follows:

	    1.- the module thread support is enable via the "threads" module
                option, i.e.

                  %module("threads"=1)

            2.- Equivalent to that, is the new '-threads' swig option

                  swig -threads -python ...

            3.- You can partially disable thread support for a given
                method using:

                  %feature("nothread") method;
                or
		  %nothread method;

                also, you can disable sections of the thread support, 
                for example

                  %feature("nothreadblock") method;
                or
		  %nothreadblock method;

                  %feature("nothreadallow") method;
                or
		  %nothreadallow method;

                the first disables the C++/python thread protection, and the
                second disables the python/C++ thread protection. 

            4.- The current thread support is based in the PyGIL
                extension present in python version 2.3 or later, but
                you can provide the thread code for older versions by
                defining the macros in pythreads.swg.

		If you get a working implementation for older versions,
		please send us a patch.

            For the curious about performance, here are some numbers
            for the profiletest.i test, which is used to check the speed
	    of the wrapped code:

	        nothread           9.6s  (no thread code)
		nothreadblock     12.2s  (only 'allow' code)
		nothreadallow     13.6s  (only 'block' code)
                full thread       15.5s  ('allow' + 'block' code)
	    
	    i.e., full thread code decreases the wrapping performance by
	    around 60%. If that is important to your application, you
	    can tune each method using the different 'nothread',
	    'nothreadblock' or 'nothreadallow' features as
	    needed. Note that for some methods deactivating the
	    'thread block' or 'thread allow' code is not an option,
	    so, be careful.
	    

11/26/2005: wsfulton
            SWIG library files use system angle brackets everywhere for %include, eg
              %include "std_common.i"
            becomes
              %include <std_common.i>

11/26/2005: wsfulton
            [Java, C#]
            Typesafe enums and proper enums have an extra constructor so that enum item values that
            are initialised by another enum item value can be wrapped without having to use %javaconstvalue/
            %csconstvalue for when using %javaconst(1)/%csconst(1). Suggestion by
            Bob Marinier/Douglas Pearson.
            For example:

              typedef enum
              {
                 xyz,
                 last = xyz
              } repeat;

11/21/2005: mmatus
	    [ruby + python]

	    Fixes for directors + pointers. This is an ugly problem without an easy
	    solution. Before we identified this case as problematic:

	          virtual const MyClass& my_method();

            but it turns out that all the cases where a pointer, array or
            reference is returned, are problematic, even for 
	    primitive types (as int, double, char*, etc).

	    To try to fix the issue, a new typemap was added,
	    'directorfree', which is used to 'free' the resources
	    allocated during the 'directorout' phase. At the same
	    time, a primitive garbage collector engine was added to
	    deal with orphaned addresses, when needed.
	    
	    The situation is much better now, but still it is possible to have
	    memory exhaustation if recursion is used.

	    So, still you need to avoid returning pointers, arrays or
	    references when using director methods.

	    - Added stdint.i - typemaps for latest C99 integral types found in stdint.h.
	    
11/14/2005: wsfulton
            More types added to windows.i, eg UINT8, WORD, BYTE etc. 
            Including windows.i will also enable SWIG to parse the __declspec Microsoft
            extension, eg __declspec(dllimport). Also other Windows calling conventions
            such as __stdcall.

11/10/2005: wsfulton
            New library file for Windows - windows.i. This file will contain useful type
            information for users who include windows.h. Initial support is for the
            non ISO integral types: __int8, __int16, __int32, __int64 and unsigned versions.
            The unsigned versions previously could not be parsed by SWIG.  SF #872013.

11/09/2005: wsfulton
            [Java, C#] Portability warning for files which will overwrite each other on case
            insensitive file systems such as FAT32/NTFS. This will occur, for example, when two
            class names are the same barring case. The warning is issued on all platforms and
            can be suppressed with the usual warning suppression techniques. SF bug #1084507.

11/09/2005: wsfulton
            ./configure --with-python --with-ruby --with-perl5 etc enable these languages,
            ie the --with-xxxx options, where no path is specified, work the same as if 
            the option was not specified at all. Based on patches #1335042 #1329048 #1329047.

11/09/2005: dancy

	    [Allegrocl]
	    Add C++ support to the Allegrocl module. Further
	    enhances the C support as well. Some of the
	    features:

	    - MUCH better generation of foreign types based on
	    the C/C++ types for use in defining the FFI on
	    the lisp side. We don't pass everything as a (* :void)
	    any longer.

	    - Uses typemaps for better control of type conversions
	    and code generation in the generated lisp and c++ wrapper
	    code.

	    - CLOS wrapping of pointers returned from foreign space
	    makes it easier to differentiate pointers in user code.
	    The wrapping objects can be passed directly to FF calls.

	    - Defun wrapping of FF calls, allowing for more lispy
	    interface. Conversion, GCing, of lisp objects to 
	    foreign objects can be done in the wrapping defun via
	    the use of typemaps.
	    
	    - overload dispatching implemented on the lisp side
	    using generic functions.

	    - Templates and synonymous types supported.

11/07/2005: mmatus

	    [Python] Adding proper support for multi-inheritance in
	    the python side, ie, if you have two C++ wrapped class, Foo
	    and Bar, now:

	       class MyPythonClass(Foo,Bar):
	          ....

            will properly work, even with directors, and the
            deallocation of Foo.this and Bar.this will follow
            correctly. Before, a class could only have one 'this'
            instance (unlike C++), only the last base class was
            properly deleted, or detected with directors.

	    Now 'self.this' can be a list, which will contain the C++
	    instance pointers for all the base classes.
	    
	    Also, swig.this is responsible for deallocating the C++
	    instance(s), and the __del__ method is not emitted unless
	    the user preppend/append some code to it.

	  - Swig can now detect memory leaks, ie, if you still
	    don't use proxy/shadow classes, and type something like
	    
	         import _example
	         f = _example.new_Foo()

	    and forget to call _example.delete_Foo(f), then swig will
	    tell you that there is a memory leak.

	    Otherwise, if you always use the proxy classes, you probably
	    you will never ever see this warning unless there is
	    something wrong inside the swig wrapping code.
	       
	
            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
	    
	    If you overloaded the __del__ method, and call the base
	    one	 without a try block, as in

	           class MyClass(SwigClass):

	              def __del__(self):
		          <your code here>
		          SwigClass.__del__(self)
			  
            python could complain that the method SwigClass.__del__ is
            undefined. Try to use instead:
	    
	              def __del__(self):
		          <your code here>
		          try: SwigClass.__del__(self)
			  except: pass

	    or simply 		  

	              def __del__(self):
		          <your code here>

11/02/2005: mmatus

	    [Python] Adding more fun to STL/STD containers, now you
	    can do

	       %template(pyset) std::set<PyObject *>;		
	       %template(pyvector) std::vector<PyObject *>;	
	       %template() std::pair<PyObject *,PyObject *>;	
	       %template(pyvector) std::map<PyObject *,PyObject *>;
	       ....

	    The same  applies to std::list, std::deque, std::multiset, etc.

	    Then, at the python side you can do now:

	       # C++ std::vector as native python sequence
	       v = pyvector([1,"hello",(1,2)])
	       print v[1]
	       >> 'hello'
	       print v[2]
	       >> (1,2)
	       					   
	       # C++ std::set as native python sequence
	       s = pyset()			   
	       s.insert((1,2))		   
	       s.insert(1)			   
	       s.insert("hello")
	       sum=()
	       for i in s:
	         sum +=(i,)
	       print sum
	       >>> (1, 'hello', (1, 2))
	       				   
	       # C++ std::map as native python sequence
	       m = pymap()			   
	       m["foo"] = "hello"		   
	       m[1] = (1,2)
	       pm = {}
	       for k in m:	    	   
	         pm[k] = m[k]
	       print pm
	       >>> {1: (1, 2), 'foo': 'hello'}

	    ie, the STD/STL containers work as real native python
	    container, with arbitrary item types and so.

	    But since normal C++ containers do not properly ref/unref
	    their items, you should use the safer versions:
	    
	      %template(pyset) std::set<swig::PyObject_ptr>;
	      %template(pyvector) std::vector<swig::PyObject_ptr>;
	      %template() std::pair<swig::PyObject_ptr, swig::PyObject_ptr>;
	      %template(pyvector) std::map<swig::PyObject_ptr,swig::PyObject_ptr>;
	      ....

	    where swig::PyObject_ptr is a PyObject * envelope class provided
	    to safely incref/decref the python object. 
	    
	    So, now you can use all the STL/STD containers as native
	    Python containers. 

	    Note 1: std::map, std::set and the other 'ordered'
	    containers will properly use PyObject_Compare for sorting,
	    when needed.

	    Note 2: all the STL/STD containers have a limit size of
	    SIZE_MAX, ie, you can have manage containers larger than
	    INT_MAX, the python limit.
	    
	      
11/02/2005: mmatus

	    [Python]
	    - add 'iterator()' method for all sequences and additionally
	      'key_iterator()' for maps.

	      'iterator()' will always return the native C++ iterator.
	      Additionally, in maps, 'key_iterator()' will return a python
	      iterator using only the map keys.
	      
	      In general the sequence method __iter__ will call
	      'iterator()', returning the native C++ iterator, but in
	      maps it will call 'key_iterator()', maintaining
	      backward compatibility.

	      Hence, for std::maps, you can play then with the native
	      C++ iterator, which value is a (key, value) pair, by
	      calling map.iterator(), as with map.begin(), map.end(), etc.

	      The difference is that map.iterator() returns a safe
	      'closed' iterator, while map.begin() and map.end() are
	      'open' iterators.

	      A 'closed' iterator knows the begin and the end of the
	      sequence, and it never can seg. fault. An 'open'
	      iterator, as in C++, can seg. fault at the C++ side.

	         # a closed iterator is safe in the following example.
		 # the next() method will throw a StopIteration
	         # exception as needed
	
	         i = seq.iterator()
		 try:
                      while True:
		        sum += i.next()
		 except: pass
		 
		 # an open iterator always need to be checked,
		 # or it will crash at the C++ side

	         current = seq.begin()
                 end = seq.end()
		 while (current != end):
		    sum += current.next()
	      
	      
	    [Python]
	    - Finally, when we call 

	        f = Foo()

	      the construction is 'one-way'. Before construction  was done
	      something like

	          Foo() (python) -> _new_Foo() (C++) 
                  new_Foo() (C++) -> FooPtr() (python) 
                  FooPtr() (python) -> Foo() (python)

              and returning a pointer was done like

                  NewPointerObj() (C++) -> FooPtr() (python)
                  FooPtr(python) -> Foo() (python)
                  		  

	      ie, we when going back and forward between the C++ and
	      python side.

	      Now since there is no FooPtr the construction process is

	          Foo() (python) -> _new_Foo() (C++)
                  _new_Foo() (C++) -> NewPointerObj() (C++) (no shadow class)

              and returning a pointer is done

                  NewPointerObj() (C++) (with shadow class) -> NewInstaceObj() (C++)

	      where NewInstanceObj creates a new instance without
	      calling __init__ and it doesn't go 'back' to python, is
	      'pure' C API.

	     - With this change, and the other ones in the
               PySwigObject type, which now carries the thisown and
               swig_type_info pointer, the generated code should be as
               fast as boost::Python and/or the other python wrappers
               based in pure Python/C API calls.

	       As a reference, the profiletest_runme.py example, which
	       does a simple call function many times, such as this code:

                    import profiletest       
		                             
		    a = profiletest.A()      
		    b = profiletest.B()      
		    for i in range(0,1000000)
	              a = b.fn(a)            


	       where fn is defined as 'A* B::fn(A *a) {return a;}',
	       produces  the following times

                               nomodern    modern
	         swig-1.3.26    19.70s      5.98s
                 swig-CVS        0.99s      0.98s
	       

	       Clearly, there is a large improvement for the python
	       'nomodern' mode. Still, the 'modern' mode is around
	       6 times faster than before. For the same test, but
	       using the non-shadow version of the module, we get

	                       _profiletest (non-shadow)
	         swig-1.3.26     0.80s 
                 swig-CVS        0.60s 

	       Hence, now for practical purposes, the proxy overhead
	       is insignificant.

	       Note that the performance numbers we are showing is for
	       a simple module (two types) and a simple function (one
	       argument). For real situations, for modules with many
	       more types and/or functions with many more parameters,
	       you will see even better results.
	       
		  	      
10/31/2005: mmatus
	    [Python]

	    - Finally, no more ClassPtr proxy classes. You will see
	      only a clean Class proxy class in the .py file.

	    - No more 'real' thisown attribute either, the PySwigObject now
              carries the ownership info.

	      You can also do something like

	          print self.this.own() 
		  >>> True
		  
		  self.this.disown()
		  self.this.own(0)
	          print self.this.own() 
		  >>> False		  

		  self.this.acquire()
		  self.this.own(1)
	          print self.this.own() 
		  >>> True

	      Still the old way,
	      
	          print self.thisown
		  >>> True

		  self.thisown = 0
	          print self.thisown
		  >>> False		  

		  self.thisown = 1
	          print self.thisown
		  >>> True

              is supported, and python dispatches the proper method
              calls as needed. 		  
	       

	    - Support for iterators in STL/STD containers, for example, if you have

                    %template<set_string> std::set<std::string>;
	          
               you can use the C++ iterators as:  

                     s = set_string()
		                     
		     s.append("c")   
		     s.append("a")   
	             s.append("b")

                     b = s.begin()      
		     e = s.end()        
		     sum = ""           
		     while (b != e):    
                         sum += b.next()        
                     print sum

                     >>> "abc" 

		advance the iterator as in C++

                     current = s.begin()      
		     current += 1
                     print current.value()
		     >>> "b"
		     
		now using the reverse operators

                     b = s.rbegin()      
		     e = s.rend()        
		     sum = ""           
		     while (b != e):    
                         sum += b.next()        
                     print sum

                     >>> "cba" 

	        or the 'previous' method

                     b = s.begin()      
		     e = s.end()        
		     sum = ""           
		     while (b != e):    
                         sum += e.previous()
                     print sum

                     >>> "cba" 

                or just as in a python fashion

                     for i in s:
                         sum += i        
                           
                Note 1: Iterators in C++ are very powerful, but
                dangerous too. And in python you can shoot yourself in the foot
                just like in C++, so, be careful.
		
		Note 2: the iterators are 'light', ie, they do not
		convert sequence elements until you request to do so, via
		next(), value() or previous(). If you just increment/decrement one
		no conversion is performed, for example:

                      
                     b = s.begin()      
	             b += 1
                     b.incr()
                     b.incr(2)
		     b.decr(2)
                     b.decr()
                     b -= 1

		 only the iterator is modified, and not value wrapper
		 is generated. Other typical C++ operations are also 
		 available, such as:

		     print s.end() - s.begin()
		     >>> 3
		     f = s.begin() + 1
		     print f.value()
		     >>> "b"
		     l = s.end() - 1
		     print l.value()
		     >>> "c"
		 
		 etc.  Of course, the 'find', 'insert', 'erase', and
		 so on methods also supports iterators now, ie:

		      i = s.begin()
		      i += 1
		      s.erase(i)
                      for i in s:
                         sum += i
		      print sum
		      >>> "ac"
		      
            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

	    There is no more 'thisown' attribute. If you use it, python
	    will translate the following code as follows:

                if (self.thisown):   ==>   if (self.this.own()):
		self.thisown = 1     ==>   self.this.own(1)
                self.thisown = 0     ==>   self.this.own(0)

	    Still, maybe in some unusual cases the translation will not be
	    100% correct, so if you have a problem, please report it
	    and/or use the new 'self.this.own()' accessor.
	    
	    
            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
	    
	    There is no more ClassPtr classes in the python code. Hence,
	    if in the past you needed to resort to some kind of trickery
	    with them, or overcome their presence, it is no longer
	    required, but the extra code you added could now break
	    things.

	    If needed, you can use the option -classptr, i.e.,

               swig -classptr -python ...

	    to generate the old ClassPtr classes.


10/30/2005: mkoeppe 
	    [Guile] Make declared and defined linkage of SWIG_init consistent.  
	    Reported by Steven G. Johnson (SF patch 1315498).

10/26/2005: mmatus

	  - Added the attribute.i file to the global library director.
	    Now it can be used from other languages that do not use
	    the unified typemap library as well.

	    So, if you have something like:

	       %include attribute.i

               %attribute(A, int, a, get_a, set_a);
	       				      	  
	       struct A			      	  
	       {    				  
	         int get_a() const; 		  
	         void set_a(int aa); 		  
	       };				  

               %attribute_ref(B, int, c);
	       				
	       struct B			
	       {    			
	         int& c(); 		
	       }; 

	    then in the target language the 'A.a' and 'B.c' attributes will
	    be visible, ie, you can access them as plain variables:

               f   = A()
               f.a = 3
               g   = B()
               g.c = 3 
           
	       h   = f.a + g.c

	    and the proper get/set methods will be dispatched. See
	    attribute.i for more info.
   
          - More cleanups around and adding more test-cases. The
            DISOWN typemap now is tested and working in all the
            languages that use the unified typemap library, ie, tcl,
            ruby, perl and python.
	    

10/25/2005: mmatus

	    - Perl, complete the DISOWN typemap.
	    
	    - added the attribute.i file to the unified typemap
              library (before was only usable from python).

	    - unify the names for the setter and getter methods in
	      perl,tcl,ruby and python, so, the attribute.i library
	      can work across them.
	      
	    - see the li_attribute.i test-case or the library file

 	        Lib/typemaps/attribute.swg

              for more info about how to use it.

 
	      

10/24/2005: mmatus

	    - Perl now uses the unified typemap library.

	    - Changes in ruby to use the $track option in typemaps.

	    - Changes in the unified typemap library to follow the
	      convention that all macros that are not used in the
	      C/C++ side starts with %, such as

	           %delete
		   %new_array

              etc.
	      
	    - Documenting fragments, see fragments.swg.

	    - Cleaner way to use the unified typemap library, include
	      just <typemaps/swigtypes.swg>.

	      Check some of the supported languages: perl, tcl, ruby,
	      python.

	      Always start with the head file, such as

	         python/python.swg
	         tcl/tcl8.swg
	         ruby/ruby.swg
	         perl5/perl5.swg

              and the principal file that invokes the unified library, such as

	         python/pytypemaps.swg	    
	         tcl/tcltypemaps.swg	    
	         ruby/rubytypemaps.swg	    
	         perl/perltypemaps.swg	    
	    
	      The file that provide the specialization for each
	      language are the one that provides the basic types:

	         python/pyprimtypes.swg	
	         ruby/rubyprimtypes.swg	
	         tcl/tclprimtypes.swg	
	         perl5/perlprimtypes.swg

	      and the string manipulation:  	 
	    
	         python/pystrings.swg	
	         ruby/rubystrings.swg	
	         tcl/tclstrings.swg	
	         perl5/perlstrings.swg

		 
	      The rest of the files, such as carray.i, are mostly one 
	      line files that include the proper typemap library
	      version.

            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY in Perl ***

	    Some missing/wrong typemaps could start working properly,
	    and change the old expected behavior in Perl.

10/23/2005: wuzzeb
            Chicken:
              + pointers to member functions finally work properly
              + add test of member function pointers to cpp_basic.i

10/20/2005: dancy
	    [allegrocl] Added C++ support. Large update, many changes. See
	    newly added Allegro Common Lisp section in lisp.html

10/20/2005: mmatus
	    Ruby, Tcl, Python:

	    - Uniform way to fail (label fail:), now finally
	      SWIG_exception works across the three languages and all
	      the typemaps.

	    - Add proper cleanup code to ruby

	    - More valgrind fixes

	    - Simplify the inline use, it seems a small interface of
	      20,000 lines (plus many many templates) can break 
	      gcc -O3 easily.

	    - Finalize the typemaps library. All the old  *.i files
	      (carray.i, cpointer.i, exception.i) had been implemented
	      in the new typemaps library.
	    

10/19/2005: wuzzeb
	    Update the Runtime Typemap documentation in Typemaps.html

10/18/2005: wuzzeb
	    Chicken:
	      - Correctly handle %ignored classes
              - Correctly convert long, long long, unsigned long, etc
                to chicken primitives. (Thanks to Felix Winkelmann)
              - Using argout parameters when the return value was a
                wrapped pointer caused a memory corruption.  The chicken
                garbage collector moved a pointer out from under us.
                This is now fixed by running all the proxy creation
                functions as continuations after the wrapper function
                returns.  As part of this, we no longer need the
                chickenfastproxy flag on output typemaps.
              - using -proxy and -nocollection together works now
                Before, it was not exporting the destructor in the proxy
                wrapper.

10/18/2005: mmatus
	    
	    Added the Unified Typemap Library (UTL). It unifies the typemaps for

 	        python, ruby, tcl

	    and in the process, fixes several problems in each of the three
	    languages to work in a "canonical" way now established in
	    the typemap library
	    
	       SWIG/Lib/typempas

	    The current status of the unification is that everything
	    compiles and runs inside the test-suite and examples
	    directories. And for the first time we have three
	    languages than pass the primitive_types.i case.

	    Also, we have a uniform way to treat the errors, for example
	    if you do something like

	      >>> from primitive_types import *
              >>> print val_uchar(10)
              10
	      >>> print val_uchar(1000)
              Traceback (most recent call last):		      
	        File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?			    
	      OverflowError: in argument 1 of type 'unsigned char'

	    you get the same exception in all the three languages.
	    
	    And well, many more good things will come from this
	    unification, for example, proper support of the STL/STD classes
	    for all the languages, and hopefully, we can keep
	    adding other languages.

	    The hardest part, writing a common typemap library
	    that suites the three different languages, is done,
	    and adding another language should now be easy. 

	    Still the global unification is not complete, the STL/STD 
	    part is next, and probably as well as adding one or two more
	    languages.

	    If you are curious, look at the python, ruby and/or tcl
	    directories to see what is needed to support the new
	    common typemaps library.  Still, the final way to
	    integrate a new language could change as we move to
	    integrate the STD/STL.

            *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY in Ruby/Tcl ***

	    Some missing/wrong typemaps could start working properly,
	    and change the old behavior, specially in ruby and tcl.

