wxPython/SWIG/README.txt

   1 SWIG 1.3.x Patches
   2 ==================
   3
   4 This directory holds a set of patches for the CVS version of SWIG that
   5 are required if you wish to use SWIG for wxPython development, or for
   6 building your own extension modules that need to interface with
   7 wxPython.  These have been submitted to SWIG's SourceForge patch
   8 tracker, so hopefully they will get incorporated into the main SWIG
   9 source tree soon.
  10
  11 wxPython currently uses the 1.3.27 version of SWIG, which you can get
  12 from https://sourceforge.net/projects/swig/, plus the patch(es) in
  13 this directory.  Download the SWIG sources, apply the patch(es) here
  14 and then build as normal.  I have also have made available a tarball
  15 containing the patched SWIG sources, plus a win32 binary, located
  16 here:
  17
  18         http://starship.python.net/crew/robind/wxPython/tools/
  19
  20 If you want to use the patched version of SWIG and still have the
  21 stock version available for other projects, then you can configure the
  22 patched version to use a different --prefix and then specify that
  23 executable when running setup.py, like this:
  24
  25         python setup.py SWIG=/path/to/my/swig [other params]
  26
  27
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  30
  31 swig-1.3.27.patch
  32
  33     SWIG changed slightly how the runtime type_info data is structured
  34     in order to optimize load time and runtime access.  wxPython
  35     uncovered a bug in the implementation, so this patch includes the
  36     fix that was checked in to CVS for 1.3.28.
  37
  38     SWIG changed how the import statments are output to the proxy
  39     file, but this also caused the order to change (they all moved to
  40     the very top of the file) so this broke the module docstring, as
  41     well as some behavior that Chandler development is depending upon,
  42     so this patch changes back to how it was done in prior releases.
  43
  44     Bug fix for SWIG's definition of the %makedefault macro.
  45
  46
  47
  48 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  49
  50 swig-1.3.24.patch (now obsolete)
  51
  52     A bug was introduced in SWIG 1.3.23 and remains in 1.3.24 that
  53     causes compilation problems with wxPython (copies are being made
  54     of objects that don't have a copy constructor.)  This patch fixes
  55     the code generator to use a reference to the object instead of
  56     making a copy.
  57
  58     Part of my autodoc patch was disabled becuase a unit-test failed.
  59     It turns out that the failure was due to a name clash in the unit
  60     test itself, so I re-enabled that section of code in this patch.
  61
  62     Don't generate the autodocs string for a class if it has a
  63     docstring attribute.
  64
  65     Some typos fixed, etc.
  66
  67
  68
  69
  70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  71 This patch was added to SWIG's CVS on 10/2/2004 and a modified version
  72 of it is in 1.3.23 and 1.3.24.
  73 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  74
  75
  76 swig.python-2.patch
  77
  78     Adds the following features to the Python Module in SWIG.  See the
  79     updated docs in the patch for more details.
  80
  81             %feature("autodoc")
  82             %feature("docstring")
  83             %feature("pythonprepend")
  84             %feature("pythonappend")
  85
  86             %module(docstring="string")
  87             %module(package="string")
  88
  89     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1023309&group_id=1645&atid=301645
  90
  91
  92 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  93 This patch was applied to SWIG's CVS on 07/12/2004 and is in the
  94 1.3.22 relese.
  95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  96
  97 swig.xmlout.patch            Fixes a couple problems in the XML output
  98                              of SWIG: an extra "/>" was removed and
  99                              newlines in attribute values were changed
 100                              to the #10; entity reference so they will
 101                              be preserved by parsers.
 102
 103                              Also, added options for dumping or
 104                              writing to a file the XML of the parse
 105                              tree *after* other language modules have
 106                              been run (previously you could only do
 107                              the XML output *instead of* a regular
 108                              language module.)
 109                              See SF Patch #864689
 110
 111
 112
 113 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 114 These patches have already been checked in to SWIG's CVS and are in
 115 the 1.3.20 release.
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 117
 118 swig.SplitLines.patch       Adds a new SplitLines function to the DOH
 119                             library.  See SF Patch #829317.
 120                             *Checked in 10/31/2003*
 121
 122 swig.xml.patch              Adds an option that drastically reduces
 123                             the size of the XML output of SWIG, which
 124                             increases the performance of the
 125                             build_renamers script used in the wxPython
 126                             build.  See SF Patch #829319.
 127                             *Checked in 10/31/2003*
 128
 129 swig.python.patch           Lots of changes for SWIG's Python module,
 130                             especially in how the proxy code is
 131                             generated.  See swig.python.patch.txt for
 132                             more details, also SF Patch #829325.
 133                             *Checked in 10/31/2003*
 134
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