On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:12:18PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Quoting Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, > > > > Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> For what it's worth, GnuCash SVN/trunk doesn't use g-wrap anymore. We > >> changed over to using SWIG. So once we release 2.2 g-wrap can just be > >> left to die ;) > > > > Out of curiosity: could you summarize the reasons why you decided to > > switch? > > 1) g-wrap wasn't being maintained; there hasn't been a release for a long > time, the release is broken (e.g. it doesn't find glib2 properly), > and nobody was responding to any email about issues. > 2) g-wrap is hard to build. It doesn't work on many platforms (e.g. I > still can't get 1.9.6 to build, let alone work, on Solaris because > of libffi). > 3) g-wrap is guile-only; swig allows us to theoretically make bindings > for many other languages, like perl or python. > 4) g-wrap is extremely fragile, and lots of users have problems because > e.g. g-wrap got split into too many packages and there's not a good way > to make sure all the proper packages are installed > 5) swig allows us to build the wrappers during 'make dist' so someone building > the package from the tarball doesn't require any build-time (OR Runtime) > libraries, so it reduces our dependencies on users. > 6) swig is much better supported, has a larger user community, and is > much more responsive to issues. > 7) swig s used by MANY more applications > 8) I'm sure I can come up with more, and I'm sure that Chris or others could > add their $0.02 to the mix.
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