Re: [DotGNU]Swig and C# (was: Strategy for dealing with C++ )

[Gopal V]

If memory serves me right, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> > I have used Swig for python and found it grossly insufficent for my
> > work ... (easy, but not sufficent) ... I finally wrote my own
> > wrappers
> > in C for Python ... which is a lot more flexible than SWIG 
> 
> But did you report the problems or look how the swig generators could
> be modified?

My work was far too specialized to modify something so general like swig.
Swig is useful for wrapping C functions , it is not useful for building
Python wrappers . Especially when I need a custom marshalling scheme. The
Swig is sort of hard coded for a standard wrapping code ... It does not 
handle mapping VarArg python methods onto vararg C methods ... (AFAIK).

        case 'i':
                params[count].int32Value\
                        
=(int)(PyInt_AsLong(PyTuple_GetItem(args,count+prefix)));
                count++;
                break;
        case 'c':
                params[count].int32Value=\
                        
(PyString_AsString(PyTuple_GetItem(args,count+prefix))[0]);
                count++;
                break;

Swig is a "Simple Wrapper Interface Generator" IIRC , I'd rather write my
own generator than hack swig to handle this very special case ... 

The quoted code is from my Python wrapper shell for C# , And after all I 
need to inherit Objects from C# into Python which cannot be done with Swig
at all ...

Gopal
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