When googling results in SWIG documentation, it's always (at least for me) only version 1.3.
For example:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=swig+python
gives
www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Python.htm

Apparently google considers versions 1.3, 2.0 and 3.0 too similar to show them all, but there must be a way to hint which version is the preferred one. Which would be the latest one?

It is mandatory in 2020.

AFAIS the example at https://github.com/swig/www/blob/master/Doc3.0/Python.html#L2865 should read super(mymodule.Foo, self).__init__(foo).

Given SWIG has dropped support for PHP7 in swig-4.2.0 and testing is now done with PHP8, we need to update the website generation for PHP8 too.

The index.html file is generated by running:

make updateweb

which simply runs:

python makeweb.py

One of the steps it does is generate index.php from index.ph, then index.html is more or less generated by running:

php index.php > index.html

This final step fails with PHP8 and does not give any errors.

Some php expertise would be much appreciated to provide a fix. Alternatively perhaps replace this all with something completely different or replace magpierss (which hasn't been maintained for a decade with something else like simplepie simplepie comparisons.

$ dig @ns11.worldnic.com www.swig.org A +norecurse

; <<>> DiG 9.18.20 <<>> @ns11.worldnic.com www.swig.org A +norecurse
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 40490
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
; EDE: 15 (Blocked): (Request blocked by policy)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.swig.org.                  IN      A

;; Query time: 17 msec
;; SERVER: 162.159.26.214#53(ns11.worldnic.com) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 13 12:52:22 JST 2024
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 72

What happend?

Though swig.org can be resolved and https://swig.org/ seems to show us same contents of https://www.swig.org ...

Problem Description

Hello, Swig Development Team.

I noticed that there are some PDF files stored in this swig/www repository. And they seems to be generated from their corresponding HTML files. For example:

• https://github.com/swig/www/blob/master/Doc4.2/SWIGDocumentation.pdf
• https://github.com/swig/www/blob/master/Doc4.2/SWIGDocumentation.html

I wonder how are those PDF files generated from their corresponding HTML files in swig/www?

Besides, I wonder what is the relation between the following two contents?

• https://github.com/swig/www
• https://github.com/swig/swig/tree/master/Doc

Sourceforge.net and its mirrors currently host the swig brew formula and packages. Unfortunately, many organizations are blocking any downloads from sourceforge.net given various security concerns with the practices in that platform.

Many other packages and brew formula (especially) have migrated to the GitHub container registry (ghcr.io) or accessing the raw files directly from GitHub via raw.githubusercontent.com. Both of these options appear to be an industry trend with greater trust of the content. Please consider migrating where the swig package and formulae can be downloaded from Sourceforge to GitHub.

The page
http://www.swig.org/tutorial.html
has a link to
http://www.southern-storm.com.au/portable_net.html
but that page does no longer contain any helpful content.

(Link as code, because I did not want to link there again).

We've had a few tickets created in the SF trackers since switching to github, which isn't a good experience for users as nobody is regularly checking them (I've only noticed because I've been checking the old issues to close duplicates and those fixed since, and to actually address the low-hanging fruit.

In particular we've had two this week - I closed one as already fixed and the other with instructions to report to github instead, but it's not a good use of my time.

@wsfulton Can you remove "User Permission" to "create" from "Authenticated"? Or give me (I'm "olly" there) Admin rights so I can?

Problem Description

Hello, Swig Development Team.

Recently, I tried to run python3 makeweb.py to build a complete website locally. However, it failed with the following error messages. What happened?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/media/hwhsu1231/Data/Test/www/makeweb.py", line 121, in <module>
    html_string = subprocess.check_output(["php", php_filename])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 421, in check_output
    return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 503, in run
    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 971, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 1863, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'php'

The following is the full logs:

hwhsu1231@vb-kubuntu:/media/hwhsu1231/Data/Test$ git clone https://github.com/swig/www.git
Cloning into 'www'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 2683, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (145/145), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (108/108), done.
remote: Total 2683 (delta 53), reused 107 (delta 36), pack-reused 2538
Receiving objects: 100% (2683/2683), 62.39 MiB | 2.53 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1749/1749), done.
hwhsu1231@vb-kubuntu:/media/hwhsu1231/Data/Test$ cd www
hwhsu1231@vb-kubuntu:/media/hwhsu1231/Data/Test/www$ python makeweb.py
Command 'python' not found, did you mean:
  command 'python3' from deb python3
  command 'python' from deb python-is-python3
hwhsu1231@vb-kubuntu:/media/hwhsu1231/Data/Test/www$ which python
hwhsu1231@vb-kubuntu:/media/hwhsu1231/Data/Test/www$ which python3
/usr/bin/python3
hwhsu1231@vb-kubuntu:/media/hwhsu1231/Data/Test/www$ python3 makeweb.py
Wrote donate.html
Wrote download.html
Wrote exec.html
Wrote faq.html
Wrote future.html
Wrote guilty.html
Wrote history.html
Wrote legal.html
Wrote links.html
Wrote mail.html
Wrote myths.html
Wrote nsf.html
Wrote projects.html
Wrote propaganda.html
Wrote rants.html
Wrote release.html
Wrote screenshot.html
Wrote screenshot2.html
Wrote survey.html
Wrote surveyresults.html
Wrote svn.html
Wrote tutorial.html
Wrote y2k.html
Wrote article_cpp.html
Wrote bugs.html
Wrote compare.html
Wrote compat.html
Wrote cpp.html
Wrote doc.html
Wrote news.php
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/media/hwhsu1231/Data/Test/www/makeweb.py", line 121, in <module>
    html_string = subprocess.check_output(["php", php_filename])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 421, in check_output
    return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 503, in run
    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 971, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 1863, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'php'
hwhsu1231@vb-kubuntu:/media/hwhsu1231/Data/Test/www$

Googling anything about SWIG almost invariably leads you to ancient documentation from version 1.3... example screenshot attached. It would be nice if something could be done to move more recent documentation to the top of google searches...