[gdal-dev] c# binding and .net4

[Ari Jolma]

Tamas Szekeres wrote:
>
> I've now updated the GDAL csharp bindings to include that fix which 
> already exists in SWIG 2.0.
>
> Upgrading the bindings to support SWIG 2.0 would be quite complicated 
> due to several backward incompatible changes introduced from versions 
> to versions.
> In addition we have a number of local fixes to rework the original 
> behaviour of SWIG causing further memory issues with the .NET garbage 
> collection. These problems hasn't yet been included in the SWIG 
> codebase (and I'm not sure it will ever be added) make that impossible 
> to use SWIG as it stands in the GDAL C# bindings.
>
Tamas,

Are you saying here that C# swig bindings are stuck with 1.3.40 (or what 
is the official version of swig that we use, in my Ubuntu I have 
1.3.36)? I believe that eventually we need to move to using 2.0.

Ari