SWIG History
Just the facts:
- July, 1995. Dave develops SWIG while working in the Theoretical
Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Originally, it
was conceived as an extension building tool for a customized scripting
language that had been created for the Connection Machine 5.
- January, 1996. SWIG rewritten in C++ at the University of Utah and expanded to cover Tcl, Perl, and Guile.
- February, 1996. First alpha release.
- September, 1996. Version 1.0 released. Support for Python added.
- September, 1997. Version 1.1 released with a variety of improvements such as shadow classes.
- February, 1998. SWIG1.1p5 released.
- 1997-1999. Various unsuccessful attempts to create SWIG2.0.
Aside from various second system effects, there were other
distractions such as a dissertation and searching for a job. All
of this work was abandoned although parts of it are found in
newer SWIG releases.
- July, 1998. SWIG development moves to the University of Chicago.
- January 1, 2000. Dave survives his most pleasant Y2K flight to Chicago O'Hare.
- February 11, 2000. SWIG1.3 alpha released. This is the first in
a series of releases that slowly migrate most of SWIG's implementation
back to ANSI C.
- March 1, 2000. SWIG1.3a2 released.
- June 18, 2000. SWIG1.3a3 released.
- September 4, 2000. SWIG1.3a4 released.
- September 22, 2000. SWIG1.3a5 released.
- July 9, 2001. SWIG-1.3.6 released.
- September 3, 2001. SWIG-1.3.7 released. Support for templates and better
handling of overloaded functions added.
- September 23, 2001. SWIG-1.3.8 released.
- September 25, 2001. SWIG-1.3.9 released.
- December 10, 2001. SWIG-1.3.10 released.
- January 31, 2002. SWIG-1.3.11 released.
- June 2, 2002. SWIG-1.3.12 released.
- June 17, 2002. SWIG-1.3.13 released.
- August 12, 2002. SWIG-1.3.14 released.
- September 9, 2002. SWIG-1.3.15 released.
- October 14, 2002. SWIG-1.3.16 released.
- November 22, 2002. SWIG-1.3.17 released.