[Python-Dev] Re: Un-stalling Berkeley DB support (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@mojam.com (Skip Montanaro)
Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:41:57 -0500 (CDT)

"Greg" == Gregory P Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com> writes:

Greg> On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 02:03:21PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>> 
>> When we last discussed this subject, there was general support for
>> the functionality, but a couple of people went "bletch!" about
>> SWIG-generated code (there was unhappiness about pointers being
>> treated as strings).
...
Greg> I'm not surprised to see the "bletch!" for SWIG's string/pointer
Greg> things, they are technically gross.

We're talking about a wrapper around a single smallish library (probably < 20 exposed functions), right? Seems to me that SWIG is the wrong tool to use here. It's for wrapping massive libraries automatically. Why not just recode the current SWIG-generated module manually?

What am I missing?

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