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*** ANNOUNCE: SWIG 1.3.16 ***
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*** ANNOUNCE : SWIG1.3 (Alpha 5) ***
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http://www.swig.org
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September 22, 2000
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October 14, 2002
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Overview
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--------
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We're pleased to announce the next installment of the SWIG1.3
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redevelopment effort. This release represents a reasonably stable
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snapshot of the CVS repository that has undergone extensive testing
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and debugging. However, this release also represents work in progress
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so there may be obscure bugs and problems that we haven't found yet.
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Please send us your feedback.
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We're pleased to announce SWIG 1.3.16, the latest installment in the
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SWIG development effort. SWIG-1.3.16 is mostly a bug-fix release to
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SWIG-1.3.15.
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What is SWIG?
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-------------
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SWIG is a software development tool that reads C/C++ header files and
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generates the wrapper code needed to make C and C++ code accessible
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from other languages including Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, PHP, Java,
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Guile, Mzscheme, and Ocaml. Major applications of SWIG include
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generation of scripting language extension modules, rapid prototyping,
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testing, and user interface development for large C/C++ systems.
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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/swig1.3a5.tar.gz
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http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swig-1.3.16.tar.gz
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What's new?
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On the surface, this release still looks a lot like SWIG1.1p5 except
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that a lot of bugs have been fixed and the language modules tend to
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generate smaller and more efficient wrappers. New modules have also
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been added to support Ruby and Mzscheme. In addition, Python, Perl,
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and Guile support has been enhanced to support new releases such as
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Python1.6 and Perl5.6.
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Within the next day, a Windows version will also be made available at
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Under the hood, you will find that this release is an almost complete
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reimplementation of SWIG's internals. In fact the only code that
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still remains from SWIG1.1 is the C/C++ parser and the language
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modules (all of which have undergone significant changes as well). As
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a result, a lot of minor improvements can be found throughout the
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system and things that used to cause problems may now work (for
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instance, pointers to functions are now supported). In addition, this
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release incorporates a number of feature requests that have been made
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on the mailing list.
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http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swigwin-1.3.16.zip
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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
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or incomplete. The documentation system is still missing and won't be
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reimplemented for some time. The Java module is also temporarily out
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of service for this release. In addition, C++ programmers who make
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extensive use of typemaps may encounter a few strange problems
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(although SWIG will generate warning messages).
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Release numbers
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With SWIG1.3, we are adopting an odd/even version numbering scheme for
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SWIG. Odd version numbers (1.3, 1.5, 1.7, etc...) are considered to
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be development releases. Even numbers (1.4,1.6,1.8) are stable
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releases. The current 1.3 effort is working to produce a stable 2.0
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release. A stable 2.0 release will not be made until it can
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accompanied by fully updated documentation. In the meantime, we will
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continue to make periodic 1.3.x releases.
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We need your help!
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------------------
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Even if you are perfectly happy with SWIG1.1, we can use your
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Even if you are perfectly happy with SWIG1.1, we can still use your
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feedback. First, we like to know about compilation problems and other
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issues concerning the building of SWIG. Second, if SWIG1.3 is unable
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to compile your old interface files, we would like to get information
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bugs in the SWIG1.3 release, develop techniques for supporting
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backwards compatibility, and write documentation that addresses
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specific issues related to migrating from SWIG1.1 to SWIG1.3.
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Finally, we are still looking for volunteers to work on aspects of
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SWIG development. Please send email to beazley@cs.uchicago.edu for
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details.
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We are also looking for volunteers who would like to work on various
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aspects of SWIG development. SWIG is an unfunded project that would
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not exist without volunteers. We are also looking for the developers
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of other SWIG language modules. If you have developed a SWIG module
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and would like to see it incorporated into the new release, please
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contact us to obtain SWIG-CVS access. We are also more than willing
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to help port your module from SWIG1.1 to SWIG1.3. Please send email
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to beazley@cs.uchicago.edu for further information.
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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
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Thien-Thi Nguyen
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Matthias Köppe
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Masaki Fukushima
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Harco de Hilster
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Loic Dachary
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Oleg Tolmatcev
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