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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Laurent Dufrechou wrote:
> Thanks dick for the update!
> Ok I will wait until all is stabilized. If you need help in the future to
> make the binding I can help a little, I've used SWIG (that completely
> automate the binding) for a big complex C++ project (which used all C++
> trick templates, overloading, polymorphism, C array to numpy array
> conversion etc...).
> Ho and if you need a better shell for python I'm currently working on
> ipython console for wx, so could be interesting for you too.
> So, if you need help in the future, drop me an email!
>
> Regards,
> Laurent

Thanks for your offer! 

I will try and remember to get back to you later.


There are 3 reasons that we are leaning away from SWIG and towards 
Boost.Python for the python bindings:

1) We are already using Boost C++.

2) We are already using Boost.Python for the Kicad binary.

3) There was a discussion on this list about SWIG vs. Boost.Python vs. 
other alternatives about 6 months ago, and Boost.Python won the 
discussion as I recall. In this discussion I played the role of 
moderator, not advocate.

It is too early and undesirable to re-visit this decision, but I just 
wanted to let you know and give you a heads up.


Thanks,

Dick