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@ -77,22 +77,41 @@ SWIG-1.3.28 summary:
- New language module: Common Lisp with CFFI.
- More powerful renaming (%rename) capability.
- More user friendly warning handling.
- Initial GCJ/Java to scripting language support.
- Add finer control for default constructors and destructors. We discourage
the use of the 'nodefault' option, which disable both constructors and
destructors, leading to possible memory leaks. Use instead 'nodefaultctor'
and/or 'nodefaultdtor'.
- Optional automatic copy constructor wrapper generation.
- Explicit conversions (python).
- Python implicit conversion mechanism similar to C++, via the %implicitconv
directive (replaces and improves the implicit.i library).
- Python threading support added.
- Support for Ruby bang methods.
- Better handling of std::string variables.
- Unified typemap library (UTL) potentially providing core typemaps for all
scripting languages based on the recently evolving Python typemaps.
- Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl using using the UTL.
- Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl use the new UTL.
- Initial GCJ/Java support for languages using the UTL.
- Improved dispatching in overloaded functions by using a cast and rank
mechanism.
mechanism in perl and optionally in python via the -castmode option.
- Better handling of Windows extensions and types.
- C++ support added to the Allegrocl module, also enhanced C support.
- Python STL support improved, eg performance improvements and addition of
iterators and STL containers of native Python types.
- Python STL support improved, addition of iterators and STL containers of
native Python types.
- Python performance options and improvements, try the -O option to test
all of them. Python runtime benchmarks shows upto 20 times better performance
compared to 1.3.27 and older versions.
- Python support for 'multi-inheritance' at the python side.
- Python simplified proxy classes, now swig doesn't need to generate the auxiliar
'ClassPtr' clasess.
- Python backward compatibility improved, many projects that used to work
only with swig-1.3.21 to swig-1.3.24 are working again with swig-1.3.28
- Better runtime error reporting.
- Add the %catches directive to catch and dispatch exceptions.
- Add the %naturalval directive for more 'natural' variable wrapping.
- Add the %allowexcept and %exceptionvar directives to handle exceptions when
accesing a variable.
- Add the %delobject directive to mark methods that act like destructors.
- Add/doc more debug options.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements to the Lua, Ruby, Java, C#, Python, Guile,
Chicken, Tcl and Perl modules.