Re: [patch #6245] Perl Module

[John Darrington]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:20:14AM +0100, Jörg Beyer wrote:
     
     Another thought I had during the week:
     The current approach is to use Perl's own XS mechanism to set up the
     bindings. I don't know much about Python, but I assume it offers comparable
     means. 
     But what do you think in general about exploring SWIG in this context?
     Again, this is all unfamiliar territory for me, but my idea would be to use
     the benefits of _unifying_ bindings to whichever dynamic language comes to
     mind. It may save some time, and it may even help to get some kind of
     unified interface, or it may lead to some recommendations, how to design 
the
     interface for language <xyz>.
     SWIG would add another dependency, of course...

I'm not intimately familiar with swig nor with python,  but I'm sure
it would be possible to build such an interface.
Spss has recently come up with its own Python interface, so it would
make sense to make the two compatible.


Guido Gay sent me this Url http://czep.net/data/spssread/ It  is
a Perl program which can apparently read PSPP/SPSS files.  It may be
of interest to you.


Regards,


John

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