Re: [ANNOUNCE] luabind available as public beta

[Daniel Wallin <dalwan01@...>]

At 12:17 2003-04-16, you wrote:
> Hello guys!
>
> Good work, far better than my own in-house "bindings creator". I've
> tried is as soon as I could :) Here is the "primae impressionis":
>
> 1. Compiling speed is aaawful (the price of template metaprogramming, i do
> guess...). With precompiled headers turned on, the whole compiling time is 
> much
> lesser, but as you had mentioned on your page there are linkage issues
> when using anonymous namespaces in ph.

Right. The issues with linkage in anonymous namespaces will be
fixed in the next release.

> 2. There are some compile time warnings even with msvc's warning
> level 3. The most dumb are:
>
> ..\luabind\detail\primitives.hpp(65) : warning C4267: 'initializing' : 
> conversion from 'size_t' to 'int', possible loss of data
> ..\luabind\detail\class_rep.hpp(269) : warning C4267: '=' : conversion 
> from 'size_t' to 'int', possible loss of data
>
> (my platform - msvc.net/regular stl implementation, lua 5 final, boost
> 1.30)
>
> What are your expections to get the final-stable-robust release
> working with final lua 5 and a number of popular compilers?

We are aiming for a stable release within a month. What popular compilers
are you refering to? We currently support all msvc compilers from 6.0 up and
gcc2.95.3 and up. Plus all intel compilers.


Daniel Wallin, dalwan01@student.umu.se