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

[Zachary Turner]

Thanks, that's a good idea.  I don't plan to start thinking about this soon
btw, mostly just curious so I have a mental roadmap.

Do you have any thoughts on specifying the minimum required SWIG version as
3.0?

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:42 AM Greg Clayton <gclayton at apple.com> wrote:

> We could add the new API in a new "lldb2" namespace to try it out the new
> API 2.0 which would be available through python as lldb2.*. So the LLDB
> shared library would vend both the 1.0 API via the "lldb" namespace and the
> new API 2.0 through the "lldb2" namespace.
>
> So we don't need to necessarily wait to start in on it. We will need to do
> thorough review as we come up with it...
>
> Greg
>
> > On Feb 26, 2015, at 10:21 AM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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