Re: [Swig-devel] DELPHI (Object Pascal) Module

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

Stefano Moratto wrote:
> Dear SWIG's community,
> 
>                       I've developed a functional delphi module that
> implements all the swig functions except for director.
> The module compiles all the examples that can be found in the CSharp
> example's folder and I tested some testsuits (cpp_basic, bloody_hell,
> enums ).
> 
> I would like this effort will be included in the standard SWIG because
>      * I think the DELPHI community needs this tools;
>      * I'm a developer in the GDAL project and I done a GDAL's
> version for delphi using SWIG but I can not include it in the standard
> GDAL distros
>      while the Delphi module is not included in SWIG.
> 
> How can I produce a patch to be sent to you? I developed starting from
> swigwin-1.35 sources.
> 

Stefano

I think the best way to submit a patch is to send it to SF. Some people 
send patches inline in an email, but usually the lines get broken up, 
then the patch program can't patch properly. The patch will probably 
apply cleanly to svn head even if you send the patch diff'd to 1.3.35. A 
unix/cygwin line ending diff will be preferable. Please send any initial 
documentation you have to the list too.

We're always interested in new modules and Pascal would be a good one to 
add to the list of supported languages. However, we are concerned about 
the number of language modules that have been submitted and then not 
brought up to scratch. It sounds like you have some basics working which 
is great. If you havn't yet read the prerequisites for acceptance, 
please take a look at 
http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Extending.html#Extending_prerequisites.

We're an open source project and like to support other open source 
languages, eg the C# module is designed to work with Mono as well as 
MS's C#. Similary for Delphi, I'd hope that it works with free pascal. 
Free Pascal 2.2.0 looks a doddle to install (under Debian/Ubuntu 
anyway). I'd be quite happy to test it out if you havn't yet tried it 
out. It'll probably be a lot easier to configure for the test-suite than 
using Windows unless you are using cygwin or mingw's gcc. Ultimately, 
easily running the entire test-suite error free is what is needed to 
maintain a language module.

William