[lldb-dev] A few questions about SWIG and interface compatibility

[Zachary Turner]

Thanks.  Is there a timeline or roadmap for starting to plan Public API
v2.0 (which, if my recollection is correct, will allow us to make breaking
changes)?

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:17 AM <jingham at apple.com> wrote:

>
> > On Feb 26, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
> >
> > First, do we require a minimum version of SWIG?  I think the answer to
> this is currently no.  My next question is whether we can require 3.0?  It
> was released close to a year ago, so it should be fairly stable.  SWIG 3.0
> contains some bugfixes that are useful for generating correct wrappers on
> Windows, especially with typedefs.
> >
> > My second question is about our interface guarantees.  Are we
> guaranteeing interface compatibility at the C++ level, or only at the
> wrapped level?  i.e. is it ok to change the signature of a C++ method as
> long as SWIG can ultimately generate a wrapper that behaves identically?
>
> At the C++ level.  We have clients (e.g. Xcode) that use the C++ API's
> directly.
>
> Jim
>
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