[Geowanking] c++/python binding wisdom

[Andrew Larcombe]

On 22 May 2008, at 16:18, nino at urbanmapping.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Departing from the recent thrilling discussion, I pose a geogeek  
> question: To SWIG or not to SWIG?
>
> I contribute to the Virtual Terrain Project (VTP,  
> www.vterrain.org).  The applications are built on GDAL, PROJ.4,  
> wxWidgets, and OSG.  Each of these has SWIG python bindings or  
> similar, with wxPython being key.   The ultimate goal: script data  
> processing, build python GUIs to interact with the VTP API, and  
> embed an interactive interpreter (pyshell/pycrust?) to control the  
> scene graph of the 3d visualization tool.
>
> My initial experiments with swig to wrap a few of the VTP objects  
> was pretty painless... so I wonder, was this a honeymoon?   
> Hopefully, y'all with experience writing or using swig bindings or  
> other c/py framework can weigh in.  Rants, gotchas, resources,  
> whatever great or token wisdom will be sincerely appreciated.

Can only comment on writing swig bindings for perl and php some boost- 
based C++ wot I wrote. Seemed to work pretty well - no scary moments,  
horrid memory leaks or noticeable inefficiencies.

Cheers,

A
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