[plt-scheme] state of mzscheme and gtk2

From: Dmitriy.Zavin at infineon.com (Dmitriy.Zavin at infineon.com)
Date: Thu Feb 10 00:42:25 EST 2005

 >I do believe that using the new foreign interface is much better than
 >SWIG (otherwise I wouldn't have invested the time...), but even if you
 >do use SWIG...  The "foreign interface" has this name rather than the
 >common "foreign function interface" because it deals with more than
 >just functions.  It is possible to access raw C data through it, and
 >this can be done even when you use some additional C extension (eg,
 >one that SWIG generates).

We currently have a lot of stuff tied up with SWIG, so it won't be
easy/fast to switch. However, I will certainly look into it when I get a
chance.

Thanks for the pointer.

--Dima



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