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

[Jeff McKenna]

Oops he likely meant: swig-4.1.0-beta1

-jeff



On 2022-10-16 8:03 a.m., Jeff McKenna wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
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