[MapServer-dev] SWIG library: call for help with final 4.1.0 release push

[Jeff McKenna]

See below for the call to test swig-4.0.0-beta1

-jeff



On 2022-10-15 1:03 p.m., William S Fulton wrote:
 > I have finally made a beta version of SWIG 4.1.0 available for testing
 > before making the official release. I aim to turn this into the official
 > release on 24 Oct if there are no major issues reported, so please test
 > it before then and send feedback via the Github issue tracker
 > <https://github.com/swig/swig/issues> or reply to this email including
 > the mailing lists.
 >
 > Download it from here:
 >
 > Source tarball:
 > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swig-4.0.0-beta1.tar.gz
 > <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swig-4.0.0-beta1.tar.gz>
 > Windows prebuilt executable:
 > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swigwin-4.1.0-beta1.zip
 > <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swigwin-4.1.0-beta1.zip>
 >
 >
 > Summary of changes:
 >
 > SWIG-4.1.0 summary:
 > - Add Javascript Node v12-v18 support, remove support prior to v6.
 > - Octave 6.0 to 6.4 support added.
 > - Add PHP 8 support.
 > - PHP wrapping is now done entirely via PHP's C API - no more .php 
wrapper.
 > - Perl 5.8.0 is now the oldest version SWIG supports.
 > - Python 3.3 is now the oldest Python 3 version SWIG supports.
 > - Python 3.9-3.11 support added.
 > - Various memory leak fixes in Python generated code.
 > - Scilab 5.5-6.1 support improved.
 > - Many improvements for each and every target language.
 > - Various preprocessor expression handling improvements.
 > - Improved C99, C++11, C++14, C++17 support. Start adding C++20 standard.
 > - Make SWIG much more move semantics friendly.
 > - Add C++ std::unique_ptr support.
 > - Few minor C++ template handling improvements.
 > - Various C++ using declaration fixes.
 > - Few fixes for handling Doxygen comments.
 > - GitHub Actions is now used instead of Travis CI for continuous
 > integration.
 > - Add building SWIG using CMake as a secondary build system.
 > - Update optional SWIG build dependency for regex support from PCRE to
 > PCRE2.
 >
 >
 > William


On 2022-09-21 9:36 a.m., Jeff McKenna wrote:
> A related news item for those MapServer people concerned on when the 
> next SWIG library release will be: dive in and help here at 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/swig/mailman/message/37710392/
> 
> Side note: I've noticed that MapGuideOS PSC has recently voted to switch 
> to SWIG support for their PHP modules.
> 
> [so SWIG has become another one of those core FOSS4G libraries]
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/