A gentle critque..

[jcc7]

In article <e4cgup$2te2$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Bill Baxter says...
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>Apparently this idea to use SWIG has been discussed (and even worked on?) a >bit before:
>http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/17315.html
>http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/17289.html
>
>Yikes that was 2003.  Wonder what happened...
>
>Bill Baxter

Some people worked on it but I guess they lost interest.
(See also http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DwithSwig)

I think the problem was that SWIG was too hard to use. It could work, but too
much effort was required that it wasn't really worth it. The payoff wasn't
enough compared to the initial investment. But I didn't spend much time with
SWIG (and I never really knew what I was doing), so there may be other reasons
why SWIG never really got used.

Also, there was dsource project started, but I think it was abandoned almost as
soon as it started:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/swig4d
http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=29

jcc7