[C++-sig] Re: [Implementation] Calling wrapped functions, converters, policies

[Niall Douglas]

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On 18 Sep 2003 at 14:32, David Abrahams wrote:

> > - Always generate an intermediate Python layer with full, automatic
> > keyword support and a copy of the documentation embedded in the C++
> > code.
> 
> These aren't so drastic; I've been saying things like this for
> several months.  However, you might ask yourself "why not just use
> SWIG?"

Bottom-up projects like SWIG easily get success with simple C++ but 
will find it geometrically harder to add increasingly complex C++. I 
went with boost.python because it seemed to me to be naturally more 
easily extendable for advanced C++ features. Also, pyste looked very 
attractive whereas SWIG requires custom written interface files which 
would take me weeks to write initially and a high quantity of 
maintanence time whenever the underlying library was changed (often).

Cheers,
Niall





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