[Metakit] Metakit and C#?

[Darel Finkbeiner]

(I thought the previous person meant C# rather than C++... I figured it was
a typo)

So... define "straightforward"?  IME, there needs to be a wrapper of some
kind, even if it is a fairly one-to-one wrapper...  I thought that's what
Mr. Kelley was talking about.  SWIG is just a way to generate native
wrappers for different languages.  I've never done SWIG with C#, but if it
works with C# then it's a very easy way to generated a nice clean wrapper.

I guess clarification from Mr. Kelley on what exactly he has done would help
on this.


On 6/1/06, gary.h.merrill at gsk.com <gary.h.merrill at gsk.com> wrote:
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> I'm a little puzzled by the characterization of C++ in this context as a
> "secondary language".  I thought that Metakit was implemented in C++, which
> would make that the *primary* language.   ???
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> Beyond that, my understanding (from a local expert) is that it is
> straightforward to call routines in other languages from C# (he says that
> his application calls a number of C++ and even Fortran modules).  So what I
> was wondering is whether anyone has experience doing this with Metakit.
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> Gary H. Merrill, Principal Scientist
> Analysis Applications, Research, and Technologies
> GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development
> Research Triangle Park, NC
> 919.483.8456
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>  *"Brian Kelley" <fustigator at gmail.com>*
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> I have slowly been making a swig wrapper for metakit to help for
> secondary languages, java, c++, python.
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> It is at the point where it is almost useable ( I can make databases
> and add rows and such ) but it has not been well tested and is
> certainly not incredibly complete nor as easy to use as the current
> python interface.  It pretty much is a direct copy of the C++
> interface.
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> I'll be happy to upload this somewhere so people can begin playing
> with it, it is highly in-progress though, mainly an issue of how much
> time I have.
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> Brian Kelley
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> On 5/31/06, gary.h.merrill at gsk.com <gary.h.merrill at gsk.com> wrote:
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> > We are about to move to C# for interface and application development
> (with a
> > lot of back end stuff in other languages).  Does anyone have experience
> in
> > using Metakit with C#?  Any hints or suggestions?
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> >  Gary H. Merrill, Principal Scientist
> >  Analysis Applications, Research, and Technologies
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