On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Gianluca Sforna <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Greg Landrum <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Note: in your original message you said that you were interested in using
> > the Python wrappers. If this is the case, you don't actually need to be
> > building the java wrappers (where these errors are happening) at all. If
> you
> > set RDK_BUILD_SWIG_WRAPPERS to OFF in your cmake command line, the java
> > wrapper will be disabled.
>
> Is there a reason why we don't just use SWIG for all wrappers,
> including python? I guess it would help exposing build or runtime
> issues with swig and probably also reduce build dependencies.
>
>
It's a good question. It certainly would be possible to do a SWIG-based
python wrapper with some (probably minor) modifications to the current
Java/C# wrapper.
The advantage (in my mind) of the boost.python based wrapper that the RDKit
currently uses is that it allows the construction of a wrapper that feels
more Pythonic. The problem with the (mostly) automatically generated
wrappers that SWIG produces is that they generally end up feeling like C++
no matter what language you're working in.[1]
-greg
[1] there are some other points about how well/poorly SWIG is supported and
how complex it is to work with, but those are easier to overcome.
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