SWIGification status, Part 2

[Derek Atkins]

As of last night this branch built cleanly (modulo the -Wno-unused
flag) AND it passed "make check".   Nice job, guys!

Granted, it requires swig-1.3.28, which is newer than what's
in FC5 -- but a simple backport of 1.3.29 from FC6 and all
is happy.

-derek

Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net> writes:

> Devs and Testers,
>         The swig-redo branch has a swigified GnuCash.  I've
> smoke-tested it, but it needs some more exercise.  Several steps in
> the process were pretty manual and error-prone.  Fortunately, the type
> of bugs I'm most likely to have introduced are very easy to fix.
>         The whole process went pretty smoothly except for one
> horrendous bug that killed many, many hours.  (Giving guile a NULL
> when it expects an SCM_UNDEFINED will eventually bite you, perhaps
> sometime in the distant future and in the bowels of the garbage
> collector.)
>         I'm even more impressed with SWIG's flexibility than I
> previously was, and I've continued to receive good support from
> swig-user.
>         I expect there are some gwrap-specific tests that still have
> to be disabled, and probably some dist-check related errors, but
> otherwise, it's ready to be stress-tested.
>         I hope it will get some review/comments in the swig-redo
> branch, but I hope it can be merged to trunk for wider testing soon.
>         If you notice any regressions from trunk please send them
> here.
>
> -chris
>
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