*** ANNOUNCE: SWIG 1.3.23 ***
http://www.swig.org
November 11, 2004
We're pleased to announce SWIG-1.3.23, the latest installment in the
SWIG development effort. SWIG-1.3.23 includes a number of bug fixes
and large number of enhancements throughout.
What is SWIG?
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SWIG is a software development tool that reads C/C++ header files and
generates the wrapper code needed to make C and C++ code accessible
from other languages including Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, PHP, Java,
Guile, MzScheme, Ocaml, Chicken Scheme, C#, and Allegro Common Lisp.
Major applications of SWIG include generation of scripting language
extension modules, rapid prototyping, testing, and user interface
development for large C/C++ systems.
Availability:
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The release is available for download on Sourceforge at
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swig-1.3.23.tar.gz
Within the next day, a Windows version will also be made available at
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swigwin-1.3.23.zip
What's New?
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SWIG-1.3.23 summary:
- Improved support for callbacks
- Python docstring support and better error handling
- C++ default argument support for Java and C# added.
- Improved c++ default argument support for the scripting languages plus
option to use original (compact) default arguments.
- %feature and %ignore/%rename bug fixes and mods - they might need default
arguments specified to maintain compatible behaviour when using the new
default arguments wrapping.
- Runtime library changes: Runtime code can now exist in more than one module
and so need not be compiled into just one module
- Further improved support for templates and namespaces
- Overloaded templated function support added
- More powerful default typemaps (mixed default typemaps)
- Some important %extend and director code bug fixes
- Guile now defaults to using SCM API. The old interface can be obtained by
the -gh option.
- Various minor improvements and bug fixes for C#, Chicken, Guile, Java,
MzScheme, Perl, Python and Ruby
- Improved dependencies generation for constructing Makefiles.
Release numbers
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With SWIG-1.3, we are adopting an odd/even version numbering scheme for
SWIG. Odd version numbers (1.3, 1.5, 1.7, etc...) are considered to
be development releases. Even numbers (1.4,1.6,1.8) are stable
releases. The current 1.3 effort is working to produce a stable 2.0
release. A stable 2.0 release will not be made until it can
accompanied by fully updated documentation. In the meantime, we will
continue to make periodic 1.3.x releases.
We need your help!
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Even if you are perfectly happy with SWIG-1.1, we can still use your
feedback. First, we like to know about compilation problems and other
issues concerning the building of SWIG. Second, if SWIG-1.3 is unable
to compile your old interface files, we would like to get information
about the features you are using. This information will help us find
bugs in the SWIG-1.3 release, develop techniques for supporting
backwards compatibility, and write documentation that addresses
specific issues related to migrating from SWIG-1.1 to SWIG-1.3.
We are also looking for volunteers who would like to work on various
aspects of SWIG development. SWIG is an unfunded project that would
not exist without volunteers. We are also looking for the developers
of other SWIG language modules. If you have developed a SWIG module
and would like to see it incorporated into the new release, please
contact us to obtain SWIG-CVS access. We are also more than willing
to help port your module from SWIG-1.1 to SWIG-1.3. Please send email
to ·······@cs.uchicago.edu for further information.
Please report problems with this release to the swig-dev mailing list,
details at http://www.swig.org/mail.html.
--- The SWIG Developers
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Matthias Koeppe -- http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe