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*** ANNOUNCE : SWIG1.3 (Alpha 5) ***
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September 22, 2000
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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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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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What's new?
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-----------
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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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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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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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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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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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about the features you are using. This information will help us find
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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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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 K<>ppe
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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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