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ANNOUNCE

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+		 *** ANNOUNCE:  SWIG1.3 (Alpha 4) ***
+
+			  September 4, 2000
+
+Overview
+--------
+We're pleased to announce the next installment of the SWIG1.3
+redevelopment effort.  This release represents a reasonably stable
+snapshot of the CVS repository that has undergone extensive testing
+and debugging.  However, this release also represents work in progress
+so there may be obscure bugs and problems that we haven't found yet.
+Please send us your feedback.
+
+Availability:
+-------------
+The release is available for download on Sourceforge at
+http://
+
+What's new?
+-----------
+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 Ruby and Mzscheme. In addition, Python, Perl,
+and Guile support has been enhanced to support new releases such as
+Python1.6 and Perl5.6.
+
+Under the hood, you will find that this release represents 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).
+
+What's broken?
+--------------
+As this is a work in progress, a number of features are still missing
+or imcomplete.  The documentation system is still missing and won't be
+reimplemented for some time.  The Java module is also temporarily out
+of service for this release.  In addition, C++ programmers who make
+extensive use of typemaps may encounter a few strange problems.
+
+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 problematic 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.
+
+Please report problems with this release to swig-dev@cs.uchicago.edu.
+
+--- The SWIG Developers
+
+David Beazley 
+Thien-Thi Nguyen
+Matthias Köppe
+Masaki Fukushima
+Harco de Hilster
+Loic Dachary
+Oleg Tolmatcev
+

README

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 $Header$
 
-Tagline: SWIG is a compiler that integrates C, C++, and Objective-C
+Tagline: SWIG is a compiler that integrates C and C++ with scripting 
-         with scripting languages including Perl, Python, Tcl, Guile,
+         languages including Perl, Python, Tcl, Guile, Mzscheme, 
          and Ruby. 
 
 This distribution represents work in progress towards building a new
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  Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn@glug.org)                        (Testing/Misc)
  Masaki Fukushima (fukusima@goto.info.waseda.ac.jp)     (Ruby)
  Matthias Köppe (mkoeppe@saturn.Math.Uni-Magdeburg.DE)  (Guile)
+ Oleg Tolmatcev (o.t@altavista.net)                     (Mzscheme)
 
 Past contributors (currently incomplete):
 
- Dustin Mitchell, Ian Cooke, Catalin Dumitrescu, Baran Kovuk, Gary Holt,
+Dustin Mitchell, Ian Cooke, Catalin Dumitrescu, Baran Kovuk, Gary Holt,
- David Fletcher.
+David Fletcher.
  
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 extensible, and easier to maintain.  To this end, the source code has
 been consolidated and reorganized with the Source directory.  For more
 information, please see Doc/internals.html.
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