[vtkusers] c# port of VTK

[Sean McInerney]

A rewrite of VTK in C# just sounds like a real monster of project! It 
seems like a huge effort to go to initially and a huge nightmare to 
maintain in sync with the original VTK library. Wrappers have advantages 
and disadvantages ... though they would seem eminently more practical 
unless one's intent is to compete with the original VTK library.

Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>>>>>>"SMI" == Sean McInerney <seanm at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>     SMI> Hi Prabhu,
>     SMI>    I didn't address the issue of virtuals and inheritance
>     SMI>    within the
>     SMI> wrapper language since I would most likely implement a
>     SMI> subclass in C++ and then wrap the derived class. I would be
>     SMI> willing to guess that this is not everyone's preference and
>     SMI> that such users might prefer to extend VTK in their non-C++
>     SMI> language of choice.
> 
>     SMI>    Am I understanding the problem?
> 
> Yes, but from what I understand this (extending in the target
> language) is important when you want a complete port to the .net
> environment.  The idea is that you can extend the library in any
> language of your choice and not merely write it in C++ and wrap it.  
> 
> I just wanted to mention that there are similar issues when generating
> the wrappers to any of the currently supported languages.
> 
> cheers,
> prabhu