[PD-dev] generating the standard library: techniques

[David Plans Casal]

Hey

On 31 Mar 2006, at 16:42, carmen wrote:

>> If we want a lot of functionality fast then python seems like the  
>> best
>> solution
>
> it would be great to have bindings to all the POSIX stuff like fopen 
> () etc , instead of semi-featured inconsistent frontends to a few  
> pieces here and there like the [sprintf] external in cyclone or the  
> [popen] external or bits of fopen() in soundfiler..maybe it can be  
> generated with SWIG.. since stuff like python just hooks into the  
> same things, i dont see why PD cant do it without a middleman..

Ah. different thread ;-)

Ok but so same question : has anyone SWIGged pd standard libs to a  
scripting language?

I'd like to try this in either SWIG-->Python or SWIG-->Ruby (ruby is  
much nicer to teach, and way easier to learn, IMHO).

d

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