Re: Status of the swig directory (aka Xerces-P)

Hi Boris,

On 07/03/2008, Boris Kolpackov <boris <at> codesynthesis.com> wrote:
> Hi Jason, all,
>
>  I am wondering what is the status of the swig subdirectory. I
>  tried to do make test-suite but ended up with compile errors.
>  Alberto also confirms that the code in it is not functional.
>  According to SVN, there hasn't been any development in swig
>  for the past 16 months.

I've been making this very low priority over the past year as it
seemed that the 3.0 release was not happening. I put a lot of effort
merging the Xerces-P codebase into the 3.0 tree, but then I really
lost momentum.

I do have time at the moment to ensure that the swig directory
compiles and produces a working perl module. This will probably take
me 2-3 days.

>
>  Is anybody planning to get it into shape and continue development?
>  If not, we should probably move it out of the Xerces-C++ code base.

Good question! Let me get everything into SVN and compiling again and
then I will have to let c-dev to decide the future of the scripting
language bindings to Xerces-C. I have written them and been
maintaining them but I find the my projects are taking me away from
XML parsing, so it would be good to find another helper that wants to
continue holding the SWIG bindings.