There is a ticket that suggests adding swig to the book.  Right now it is 
referenced in pdl, subversion, and graphviz.  I took a look at it and on the 
surface it is pretty simple: CMMI.  Just about any BLFS user should be able to 
easily find, download, build, and install it without problems.

The issue is dependencies.  There are probably about 20 optional dependencies 
for different languages such as tcl, python2, python3, octave, java, apache 
ant, 
guile, ruby, php, ocaml, pike, lua, go, and lisp.  There are others that I have 
never heard of before.  Actually, I've not heard of octave before and some of 
the others here I only faintly recognize.

This really begs the question, "Why not language ? in the book".

So what do you think?  Should we add swig?  If yes, should we add some or all 
of 
the languages that are referenced?

   -- Bruce
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