wxruby users - Oct 2009 - rb++ vs. swig

Dear wxruby,

Have you looked into RB++ as an alternative to swig?

http://rbplusplus.rubyforge.org/

I''d love to hear your thoughts on this.

Cheers.

hi

Mister Gibson wrote:
> Have you looked into RB++ as an alternative to swig?
>
> http://rbplusplus.rubyforge.org/
Yes, I''ve looked into it a little; some comments I''ve had in
the past:

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wxruby-development/2009-June.txt

And also some discussion on this thread (FFI vs SWIG vs rb++)

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/322464

rb++ does seem neater than SWIG. But there''s a very considerable number
of difficult problems of wrapping wxWidgets in Ruby that are already 
solved using SWIG. rb++ also relies a fair bit on C++ namespaces, which 
wxWidgets doesn''t use, and SWIG also supports a number of C++ features 
which aren''t yet supported in rb++.

but i''m always interested to hear more on this

cheers
alex