From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Christopher Allan Webber Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Presenting Schmutz, easy C++ bindings for Guile Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 09:22:53 -0500 Message-ID: <87shhgzlmq.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87zibpwm94.wl-juanpe@sinusoid.es> <87vamdzcg6.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87shhhwhsl.wl-juanpe@sinusoid.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501251824 31185 195.159.176.226 (28 Jul 2017 14:23:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:23:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.2.1 Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 28 16:23:35 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1db6As-0007Ru-Sa for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:23:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48590 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1db6Ay-0008UF-ID for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:23:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60857) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1db6Ab-0008TR-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:23:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1db6AZ-0003Er-Jr for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:23:13 -0400 Original-Received: from dustycloud.org ([2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:cb51]:52540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1db6AZ-0003E7-E6 for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:23:11 -0400 Original-Received: from oolong (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dustycloud.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B0AED266EF; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:23:04 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <87shhhwhsl.wl-juanpe@sinusoid.es> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:cb51 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:13990 Archived-At: Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente writes: > Hi Christofer, > >> Very cool. I don't have time to investigate it at the moment, but I >> wonder if this could be used to make general Guile bindings to Xapian? >> That's something I've long wanted. > > Thanks! I just took a quick look at how Xapian does bindings, and > they are using SWIG, which has Guile support [1], so that's probably a > shorter path to achieve your goals. > > On the other hand, Schmutz might be a better fit for project that > whant to avoid code generation (like SWIG) or need more intimate > controll at the boundaries between the C++ and Scheme. > > [1] http://www.swig.org/Doc2.0/Guile.html > > Cheers! > > JP Thanks for the reply! :)