This will be an interesting exercise. I'm happy to donate some swig wrappers to the cause to compare with testing. I have found that well-written python and the C++ extension is not too much slower than the corresponding C++ code, FYI.
I recently have been working on Swig wrappers as a binding tool and can start testing them with Java. They have some really nice features but end up being fairly non-pythonic and non-java like. Java has a particular problem in that the jar files end up having to be signed and are not platform specific yada-yada. But this does allow direct access to the C++ api in all supported languages. (Perl/Ruby/Lisp/Guile/Java...) The big problem is that they feel like you are using C++. Python has a better schema for distributing extensions written in C/C++ but it still requires compilation and the like. I imagine you will be fairly successful in writing a java metakit reader but have some trouble with making the writers, good luck with this by the way. And jcw, could I see the python only reader please, please :) Brian _____________________________________________ Metakit mailing list - [email protected] http://www.equi4.com/mailman/listinfo/metakit
