Re: Perl API

2000-11-02 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
Rob Browning, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >If SWIG does a good job, then yes, but if it's not going to provide a >good solution, then I'd rather just see each interested group create >and maintain bindings for that language until/if/unless there's a >unified solution that actuall

Re: Perl API

2000-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suspect that having easy bindings for Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk, and > Ruby pretty much says that we'll use SWIG. If SWIG does a good job, then yes, but if it's not going to provide a good solution, then I'd rather just see each interested gr

Re: Perl API

2000-11-01 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
Rob Browning, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 16:20:05 Clinton Popetz wrote: > | One key advantage of doing it in SWIG is that SWIG can spew out Python > | interfaces as well, and I hear there are people who actually like > | programming in Python. :) > >Pyth

Re: Perl API

2000-11-01 Thread D-Man
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 16:20:05 Clinton Popetz wrote: | One key advantage of doing it in SWIG is that SWIG can spew out Python | interfaces as well, and I hear there are people who actually like | programming in Python. :) | Python is much nicer than perl anyways. ;-) I like it a whole lo

Re: Perl API

2000-11-01 Thread Clinton Popetz
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:34:00PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Okay. I'll look for this. If we're going to have to update a major > > portion of the Perl API, we might want to just use XS. This would free > > us from the dependency

Re: Perl API

2000-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay. I'll look for this. If we're going to have to update a major > portion of the Perl API, we might want to just use XS. This would free > us from the dependency on swig. I have a lot more experience with XS as > well. :) Hmm. How

Re: Perl API

2000-10-31 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
Dave Peticolas, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >Ok. The engine is changing a lot these days, so I would hold off on >doing any work on it right now. When it's starts to stabilize, anyone >who is interested should feel free to update the swig API work. This >will require a fair bit o

Re: Perl API

2000-10-30 Thread Dave Peticolas
"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." writes: > Dave Peticolas, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >Who uses the Perl API? > > I do. But I suspect that I'm one of the few. I just don't have the > time to (re-)learn scheme. I used lisp in the 80s but these days, I > only use it for (X)Emacs.

Re: Perl API

2000-10-30 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
Dave Peticolas, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >Who uses the Perl API? I do. But I suspect that I'm one of the few. I just don't have the time to (re-)learn scheme. I used lisp in the 80s but these days, I only use it for (X)Emacs. >The reason I ask is that the Perl API is rapi