Hi John and Gerwin, I' m also using osgswig... and really would like it
kept up with the osg development.
Using good python IDE such as SPE, developing osg is much easier (for
me) than in C++ ..... really thanks to all osgswig developers
Currently I' m stuck with an svn OSG version (2.9.5) that I' ve been
able to wrap with minimal mods to osgswig (if someone is intrested, I
could send the mods)
last time I tried (2.9.6) there were issues in osgManipulator wrapping
I'm unwilling to update as each time I update osg... there are some
problems with swig wrapping.
One of the worst issues has been the MixinVector that has broken all
the vecArrays wrapping thus preventing python construction of geometry.
I do not know weather Robert is aware of the hassle this mod has caused
to osgswig users.
I understand that the wrapping code is not fully automated, but, as far
as I know, this is the only python wrapper used.
I agree that the stability of osgswig is currently not high enough to
be included in the standard build, but I do not think is so bad.
It would be nice to have a fully automated wrapper generation process,
but, as far as I know, there are no available good automated python
wrapper for OSG,
even other projects, such as OGRE, that use other technology for
wrappers, need some manual twiddling.
So I fear that the problem of getting good python (or other lang)
wrappers could not be currently solved without the involvement of core
C++ developers.
On osgswig side we could try to set up a dashboard WITH TESTING to help
osg developers to be early aware of mods that hurt the wrapping process:
If we have a minimum of platform where osgswig get compiled nightly,
each time doing an svn update of the OSG trunk, a rebuild and some test
runs,
osgswig developers could be early warned by osg new commits that breaks
the wrapping.
At this point, if there is a critical mass of osg python users, osgswig
and osg developers could be more willing to devote some time to resolve
the inconsistency.
I' m currently using osgswig mainly under windows, both VC8 and VC9, as
VC7.... is not able to compile the HUGE osgPYTHON_wrap.cxx
This are my 2 cents.
Luigi Calori
Gerwin de Haan ha scritto:
Hoi John,
I appreciate your enthusiasm for osgswig, we hear you! Including
osgswig in the main repo would certainly increase its exposure and
use. However, I'm not really sure if the "Including them would ensure
that they are kept up to date"-argument would hold just yet. There are
also quite some issues that still need to be resolved (especially for
alternative languages other than Python), and not too many developers
helping out at this point. The bindings currently involve quite some
manual work, and it is hard to keep up with all the changes.
I would instead encourage you and other developers/users to help out
by posting issues,requests and questions here and on the osgswig issue
tracker at http://code.google.com/p/osgswig/ . In due time, we may get
in sync with the osg releases.
cheers,
Gerwin
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:36 PM, john casu <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
the SWIG bindings are so useful, that it seems like a good idea to
include them with the main release, predicated with
-DBUILD_SWIG_BINDINGS & -DBUILD_PYTHON_SWIG_BINDINGS or
-DBUILD_RUBY_SWIG_BINDINGS (etc..) flags.
Including them would ensure that they are kept up to date, and
that any bindings are correct for the installed release of OSG.
Moreover, it would encourage the building of those bindings for
other languages, other than python or ruby.
...
Thank you!
Cheers,
john
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