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SWIG History
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<img src="images/history.png" alt="History">
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SWIG was originally developed in 1995 at
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Los Alamos National Laboratory. The first version was the extension
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building mechanism for a customized scripting language that was never
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released to the public (and which was later abandoned in favor of
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Python). In early 1996, development moved to the University of Utah
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where SWIG was rewritten in C++ and expanded to cover Tcl, Perl, and
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Guile. The first alpha release occurred in February, 1996. Python
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support was added somewhat later and version 1.0 was finalized in
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September 1996. Version 1.1 was released a year later in September,
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1997. Since then, a few minor updates to the 1.1 release have
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appeared (the latest occuring in February, 1998).
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Since late 1997, SWIG development has largely languished since I had
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to deal with the most decidely unpleasant task of writing my
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dissertation, looking for employment, moving halfway across the
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country, and sorting out the chaos of being a new assistant professor.
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Although there have been a few attempts to produce SWIG2.0 in that
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time, none of these efforts have yet to be successful (although I'm
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not giving up on it just yet).
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Most recently, efforts have started to produce what will become
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SWIG1.3. This is an upgrade to SWIG1.1 that concentrates on the
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quality of wrapper code generation. In particular, SWIG1.3 includes a
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number of improvements that result in substantially less wrapper code
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than version 1.1. I'm hoping to have 1.3 released in beta by the end
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of 1999.
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-- Dave Beazley, November 27, 1999.
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