Re: Re: Pros and Cons of using existing runtimes?

 --- Roger Binns <[email protected]> wrote: 
> Mukhsein Johari wrote:
> > As a side note: For libs, you said yourself that
> the
> > interesting python libs are C extensions anyway -
> why
> > not simply do a 'swig' to prothon? Et voila,
> instant
> > libs! Why is this no longer a solution to your
> libs
> > problem?
> 
> If you are referring to the SWIG program as at
> swig.org then

I was refering to it but not directly. I meant "to use
the same approach" but it appears that that might not
be the best way after all. See below.

> it isn't as simple as that. 

It never is :-)

[snip]
> They code against the interpretter C API.  You also
> can't do without that layer since code somewhere has
> to deal with issues such as allocating objects and
> who owns memory.

Mark, could a prothonized wrapper/adapter for the
python interpreter C API not do the job (of enabling
the use of these C extention libs)? Or are the
interpreters so completely different that the whole
thing would result in some complicated mess? If it is
workable, would this path be more or less work then
going the .NET route?

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