http://www.jasonbirch.com/nodes/2008/12/03/243/python-fdo-spotted-in-the-wild/ ...Jason Birch's geospatial ramblings Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:23:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.jasonbirch.com/nodes/2008/12/03/243/python-fdo-spotted-in-the-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-67005 rbranson Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:56:16 +0000 http://www.jasonbirch.com/nodes/?p=243#comment-67005 I'm sure it would have helped if I was actually a Python developer :) It does get the job done though, and, much agreed that it's a much more rapid approach than C++, especially for something that doesn't require the same level of "bulletproofness." I am implementing some stuff on the MapGuide API using JRuby (Ruby on Java VM), which has turned out to be decent with some help from a few wrapper classes. Ultimately I would like to have the time to dust off the old C++ chops and put together an FDO SWIG port for Ruby. The only problems I've had so far with Python/SWIG/FDO out of the box is that there's no reasonable way to access the IoStream classes. I’m sure it would have helped if I was actually a Python developer :) It does get the job done though, and, much agreed that it’s a much more rapid approach than C++, especially for something that doesn’t require the same level of “bulletproofness.” I am implementing some stuff on the MapGuide API using JRuby (Ruby on Java VM), which has turned out to be decent with some help from a few wrapper classes. Ultimately I would like to have the time to dust off the old C++ chops and put together an FDO SWIG port for Ruby. The only problems I’ve had so far with Python/SWIG/FDO out of the box is that there’s no reasonable way to access the IoStream classes.

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