[Xapian-devel] Bindings and overloading

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Wed May 26 18:59:21 BST 2004


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 06:06:16PM +0100, James Aylett wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 05:53:44PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> 
> > How about a single xapian.i, but use "#ifdef SWIGPYTHON" so it sees
> > different parts?  There's something similar with SWIGGUILE already.
> 
> I suppose so. There aren't a huge number of conflicts ... #ifdef
> SWIG_OVERLOADING might be better, and the target languages can define
> that in util.i if they want.

Sure, if that works.

I'm not sure it would be wise to use SWIG_OVERLOADING as the name though
- that seems to be treading on someone else's namespace...

Cheers,
    Olly




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