Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Should PyOpenGL's usage of SWIG be rethinked?

[Andy Sy <an...@ne...>]

http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/docs/sip/sipref.html

SIP may also be worth investigating as an alternative to
SWIG.


 > Andy Sy wrote:
 >
 >> I've noticed that PyOpenGL has lagged behind the latest
 >> OpenGL versions for sometime now.  Is the complexity of
 >> SWIG to blame for this?

Andrew Straw wrote:

> I wrote a similar email about this some months ago. Some elements of the 
> conversation:
> 
> Mike Fletcher responded that there's probably some unacceptable overhead 
> with ctypes.  Part of the problem is mapping the versioning from C to 
> Python.