Re: [Swig-user] Improving SWIG through summer of code

[Brian C. <co...@ey...>]

I'll put a vote in for my favorite feature request. Adding support for catching segmentation faults as outlined in Beazley's paper: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/full_papers/beazley/beazley.pdf

Many of our unit tests are written in SWIG target languages to allow for easier maintenance of the tests, and a good test of the SWIG wrapper generation. Unfortunately when the tests find a legitimate segmentation fault it brings down the entire testing framework. It would be better to raise an exception, log the traceback, and keep going. 

Furthermore, it would be helpful for handling bug reports if our users could provide the C++ stack trace of the bug that occurred when using our library in some other language. 

-Brian
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From: William S Fulton [ws...@fu...]
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:52 PM
To: swig-devel; swi...@li...
Subject: Re: [Swig-user] Improving SWIG through summer of code

We're excited to pass on that SWIG has now been accepted onto the Google
Summer of Code program -
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/03/our-fifth-google-summer-of-code-meet.html.
We are in the list of 150 open-source/free projects that have been
accepted out of the 400 odd that applied. It really is a great chance
for students to gain a real life introduction to the free software world
as well as an opportunity for anyone itching to have a SWIG feature
implemented. Details below...

William


William S Fulton wrote:
> Do you have an area of SWIG that you would like to see improved?
> Google's Summer of Code program is a way for that to happen and get paid
> for it. Either become a student ($4500 payment) and code up the changes
> or look after a student as a mentor ($500). This is of course contingent
> on SWIG being accepted onto the program as the participants haven't been
> announced yet.
>
>
> Last year we participated and had four students, see
> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/11/swigs-first-google-summer-of-code.html.
>
> We have an ideas page for this year at
> http://code.google.com/p/swig-gsoc/wiki/ProjectIdeas. If you are
> interested in having SWIG enhanced in any way please detail it on the
> ideas page and let us know if you can help mentor a student implement
> any features. We are short of mentors and the more mentors there are the
> more projects we can get done. Mentors don't necessarily need to be
> familiar with the SWIG source code, but familiarity with SWIG to some
> degree, and the technologies around the particular feature enhancement
> are required.
>
> More info for potential mentors:
> http://www.dabeaz.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DeveloperInfo/GSoCStructure. Any
> questions, take a look at
> http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html or ask on the list
> here. Otherwise chat on #swig-gsoc on irc.freenode.net.
>
> Please email or ask on #swig-gsoc to get permission to modify the
> project ideas wiki page.
>
> William
>


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