On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> ara.t.howard / noaa.gov wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Jan Svitok wrote:
>> 
>>> It has to be noted though, that python's support seems to be the most
>>> complete, and fortunately for us, ruby is supported pretty good as well. 
>>> It
>>> saved me a lot of work... the swig generated .cpp file has 5 MB!
>> 
>> the problem with that being that math and science should repeatable and
>> verifiable - neither of which are likely to be true when a 5mb 
>> auto-generated
>> file is in the mix...
>> 
>> 2 cts.
>> 
>> -a

> I'm actually of the opinion that SWIG may not be necessary to interface
> GiNaC with Ruby ... it might be easier to do it directly.

you directly in GiNaC - or directly as in using ruby/dl sans glue code?

regards.

-a
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