[C++-sig] Re: Interchanging SWIG & Boost bindings.

[David Abrahams]

Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> writes:

>> > Do you foresee any show-stopping problems?
>> 
>> Only the obvious one: we have two really big somewhat independent
>> projects already
>
> Actually, _we_ have three projects: we have a "dictionary" package,
> which fakes-up introspection capablilities in C++, by parsing header
> files with GCC-XML; via a Python binding to the dictionary we can give
> Python users access to any C++ objects for which they generate the
> dictionary. It may not give you the prettiest interface, but you get
> it almost for free, so it serves a purpose. We'd need this to
> inteproperate with the other two, but as it is relatively young, we
> have a fair amount of freedom to adapt it to the demands of Boost and
> SWIG.

Given that we already have Pyste which uses the same strategy perhaps
this provides an interesting focal point for integration...

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Dave Abrahams
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