Hello, <br> I am getting started now. Most of time I used the IRC(Sabrina) to ask questions, which is a quick way to start:). Thanks for your attention.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/3/25 Dan Colish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dcolish@gmail.com" target="_blank">dcolish@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div><div></div><div>On Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Olly Betts wrote:<br>
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 02:33:13PM +0800, xiaona han wrote:<br>
> > I am interested in the project "Supporting another language(Lua)". It<br>
> > difficulty is medium-hard. Then my question is: How many lines of code does<br>
> > it need to implement this project? I found some code in other languages<br>
> > binding is generated by SWIG. Then what part of code do we need to write,<br>
> > and what part of code are generated by SWIG?<br>
><br>
> If you look at the code in the version control system (either svn, or<br>
> the git mirror) it should be clearer as none of the generated files<br>
> are checked in (whereas the tar files we distribute include the<br>
> generated files for convenience).<br>
><br>
> If you look at one of the languages where the wrapping has been done<br>
> in a natural way, you should see the sort of thing to aim for. Python<br>
> is probably the best example of this (but ignore the *3.py files which<br>
> are mostly generated from the *2.py files by the Python 2to3 tool, with<br>
> some manual tweaks to work around issues with that tool).<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Olly<br>
><br>
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Hey,<br>
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I just wanted to follow up and see if there were any more questions about getting started. I'd really like to see this project happen.<br>
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--Dan<br>
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