Passing this along. I don't know how prevalent SWIG support for Octave is used (I only know of plplot), so maybe this isn't that big of a deal. But it would be really nice if the Octave and SWIG folks could work this out. I may be done being a go between at this point though.
- Orion -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [swig:bugs] #1353 Octave 3.8.0 support Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:45:11 +0000 From: William Fulton <[email protected]> Reply-To: [swig:bugs] <[email protected]> To: [swig:bugs] <[email protected]> There is no configure stage for SWIG to utilise when generating code. If there are C macros in the Octave headers (as a result of an Octave configure) that turn features on and off and they are officially documented, then we can use those. However to deal with changing apis, NOT features, an API version is needed. APIs always change even if not intentional, someone will someday mess up and we will need an API version number to fix these kind of errors. The string version OCTAVE_API_VERSION is absolutely useless for use by the C preprocessor. If users of Octave, such as SWIG find the API version number useful, I strongly urge for it to be re-instated. Otherwise I propose dropping support for Octave in SWIG 3.0 as it will taint the SWIG reputation for not working and provide too much of a support burden on SWIG maintainers such as myself. I've started a discussion on the swig-devel mailing list. Please join in. Can someone familiar with Octave please set up a discussion with the Octave maintainers and us SWIG maintainers. --- Sent from sourceforge.net because you indicated interest in <https://sourceforge.net/p/swig/bugs/1353/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
