This is the 3rd release of the dayswig package, a Tcl script and
Makefile which generate a swig module which wraps the daylight
toolkits into all the Swig supported languages.

Swig, which is required if you need to rebuild, can be obtained from
www.swig.org.  Version SWIG1.1-856 ("latest.tar.gz") was used for
testing.  Swig 1.1p5 will not work as well because of how it
translates "the invalid string."

I've (Andrew) tested dayswig under both IRIX 6.4-n32 and Solaris 2.6
with version 4.62 toolkit of the toolkit.

The dayswig.i, *.c and *.html files in this release are the wrappers
and documentation files generated for day462 under IRIX 6.4.  They
are located in the directory "swig_output".

For the time being, also note that Swig has a bug in its documentation
writer in that it doesn't correctly list the parameters of wrappers
which have output parameters.  That is, the output parameters, which
are actually converted into a list of returned values, are still
listed as input parameters in the html synopses.  This may be fixed in
the next major rewrite of SWIG, but there have been no guarantees.

There is no exception handling.  Ideally the wrappers would detect
errors in the toolkit and throw an appropriate exception to the
scripting language.  This is almost impossible to do automatically.
For a hand-written solution for Python, try PyDaylight, at
  http://starship.python.net/crew/dalke/PyDaylight/


Comments and complaints to rec@daylight.com or dalke@acm.org.

Wed Jul 1, 1998 - Santa Fe, NM

Fixed bugs - found thanks to the diligence of Andrew Dalke.

Returning invalid strings caused a core dump - fixed in make-dayswig

dt_fp_range - missed an output typemap - fixed in make-dayswig

DX_CHI_TH* - substitution involved a macro, evaluated in make-dayswig

Fri Jul 31, 1998 - Santa Fe, NM

One of the "isnew" parameters takes a dt_Boolean instead of dt_Integer

4.62 changed dt_Handle from "long" to "int", which caused an %apply to fail

Added depiction callback support for Python

Simplified how to build python and perl -- "make python" and "make perl"

Thu Nov 19, 1999 - Santa Fe, NM