Recommended version of SWIG for building mapscript

[Umberto Nicoletti]

On 8/23/06, Howard Butler <hobu at iastate.edu> wrote:
> >I'll let Assefa comment on the version of SWIG used for MS4W.
>
> Jeff or Assefa would have to absolutely confirm, but I believe the
> Buildkit (and therefore MS4W) is using 1.2.27 for the 4.8 series.  I

You mean 1.3.27?

> made some patches (icky #ifdef checks) to allow 1.3.29 to work (SWIG
> renamed some things between versions).
>
> In my experience, 1.3.29 has been pretty stable, and the swig folks
> haven't ripped off another quick release like they are apt to do if
> something is wrong with it.
>
> I would also note that both the osx and linux build slaves on the
> buildbot are using 1.3.29.
>
> Howard
>