[Distutils] Duelling SWIG patches

[Michael Muller]

Greg Ward wrote:
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> OS-agnostic, but is C-centric.  Is it possible to tell from a SWIG .i
> file whether it is destined to be C or C++?  I can't think of a good way
[snip]

I'm pretty sure that the only way to do this short of parsing the file is to
run "swig" with no options and then (if it fails) run "swig -c++" (enabling 
the C++ processing features).  This seems more like something you'd want to
do during configuration then during the build.

Maybe it would be best to adopt a convention for SWIG files in distutils
(uppercase ".I" in C++, maybe?) or find some other way to allow the user to
explicitly indicate a C++ file.


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