Re: Presenting Schmutz, easy C++ bindings for Guile

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente writes:

> Hi Christofer,
>
>> Very cool.  I don't have time to investigate it at the moment, but I
>> wonder if this could be used to make general Guile bindings to Xapian?
>> That's something I've long wanted.
>
> Thanks!  I just took a quick look at how Xapian does bindings, and
> they are using SWIG, which has Guile support [1], so that's probably a
> shorter path to achieve your goals.
>
> On the other hand, Schmutz might be a better fit for project that
> whant to avoid code generation (like SWIG) or need more intimate
> controll at the boundaries between the C++ and Scheme.
>
> [1] http://www.swig.org/Doc2.0/Guile.html
>
> Cheers!
>
>   JP

Thanks for the reply! :)