Newer Swig versions...

[Umberto Nicoletti]

On 7/12/06, Tamas Szekeres <szekerest at gmail.com> wrote:
> AFAIK the hobu's buildkit is now capable to use even the 1.3.29, and
> the previous ms4w was compiled using that kit (with 1.2.37 setting).
> The SWIG C# may result in unexpected behaviour when using earlier than 1.3.27.
>
> It must be noted that the SWIG guys like to issue backward
> uncompatible releases so continuously supporting the newer versions is
> a big deal ;-)

I would prefer keeping the current known-to-work version (which for me
is good ol' 1.3.21). I could upgrade to 1.3.25 which is the greatest
stable version currently available on gentoo. 1.3.27 and 1.3.29 are
still masked (that is they are unstable)  and by looking at bugzilla
for 1.3.27 it seems to be breaking more than one python library.

Umberto

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> Tamas
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> 2006/7/12, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us>:
> > There is a 1.3.29 I think.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > >>> thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at GMAIL.COM> 7/12/2006 10:50:03 AM >>>
> > just my 2c
> > latest swig (1.3.28) prevents python mapscript from being properly executed:
> > ImportError: ../../build/lib.linux-i686-2.3/_mapscript.so: undefined symbol:
> > intarray_setitem
> > see also http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/ticket/44
> >
> > this is not the case with 1.3.24 (or .27 according to the previous link)
> >
> > cheers
> >
> >
> >
> > On 7/12/06, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Steve Lime wrote:
> > > > Hi all: Currently all distributions comming off cvs.gis.umn.edu are
> > > being build with Swig 1.3.21. I'm just wondering what folks think about
> > > moving to the latest versions. Has anyone played with MapScript generated by
> > > the new version?
> > > >
> > > > Steve
> > > >
> > >
> > > I haven't played with SWIG much lately so I do not have an opinion on
> > > the upgrade, but I think we should generate the 4.8.4 release before
> > > doing the switch just to be safe.
> > >
> > > BTW, I will prepare the 4.8.4 source for the release later today and
> > > will let you know when it's ready to package.
> > >
> > > Daniel
> > > --
> > > Daniel Morissette
> > > http://www.mapgears.com/
> > >
> >
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