[wx-users] Siloon (& SWIG, wxPerl etc.)

[Pawel Kedzierski]

  Hi,

   OK, I did some more research: interestingly, both SWIG and Siloon
were made in Los Alamos NL and for the same purpose. Therefore, Siloon
seem to be a remake of the old idea. Now SWIG is a collection of
wrapper generators for perl, python, tcl/tk, eiffel etc., but it was
designed to support C and is not so well for C++. In particular,
(AFAIK), You cannot convert C++ class into Python class with SWIG. On the
other hand, SILOON supports Python and Perl interfaces only, but it
was designed for ANSI C++, so it is able to handle classes and even
advanced template constructs.

> > > So, why not to have a look there:
> > >
> > >   http://www.acl.lanl.gov/siloon
> >
> >  It seems interesting but the docs/description are not very clear
> > and I didn't find any example of using it (is there one in the
> > distribution?). Mainly I don't understand how does it compare to
> > SWIG - does it do the same thing (and then: does do it better?)
> > or not at all?
>
>   Well, I don't know Perl or Python and I haven't heard about SWIG,
> this is why I haven't tried this program myself. I found it looking
> for numerical procedures and only read its PDF description, found here:
>
> http://www.acl.lanl.gov/docs/lalp99-200_siloon.pdf
>
> It just looked worthwhile to me, so I annouced it for those who might
> make better use of it than I. Sorry for the lack of details.
>
>                 Pawel
>
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