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[Jim Fulton]

David Beazley wrote:
> 
> Donald Beaudry writes:
>  > Ken Seehof <ken at marc.com> wrote,
>  > > If not, is there anything out there better than SWIG for wrapping C++
>  > > code?  What about MESS, is it any good?
>  >
>  > I happen to think the MESS is good, but then, I am a bit biased ;) The
>  > MESS, however, isnt directly useful for creating wrappers, at least
>  > not in the same sense that SWIG is.  The MESS does however make
>  > wrapping complex datatypes much more straightforward than doing them
>  > my hand.  I find it quite useful in the output of wrapper generators.
>  > Since there hasnt been much (or any) demand for it, I havnt made a new
>  > release of the MESS in quite a while.  I could be talked into it
>  > though.
>  >
> 
> SWIG is undergoing abit of a reorganization these days as well.  When
> it's all said and done, it may be possible to have SWIG target
> something like MESS or Extension Classes as an alternative to its
> current approach.

That would be very cool.  I'll be happy to help any
way I can with targeting ExtensionClass. :-)

Jim

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