warn message in log summary

Brad Aagaard baagaard at usgs.gov
Fri Dec 7 16:49:13 CST 2007


On Friday 07 December 2007, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
> On 12/7/07, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 7, 2007 9:18 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > However, Python objects
> > do not play well with C++ objects (which has given us a lot of grief in
> > the PyLith project).
>
> Could you coment briefly the kind of problems you had in the context of
> PyLith?

The main problem is that we chose Pyrex to do the bindings instead of SWIG. 
Pyrex is based on C, not C++ so we had to wrap the C++ code in C for Pyrex. 
Using Pyrex was a mistake. We plan to switch to SWIG in the next few months.

Brad





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