preparation of work on pyshapelib

[Bram de Greve]

My windows build seems to have succeeded, for now =)

So now I'm ready to do my share of coding on pyshapelib ...
I talked to didrik briefly, and it seems in the past there already has 
been the proposal to ditch the SWIG thing, and to write a custom 
tailored bindings directly using the Python API.  I must say I'm all 
ears for that, because it reduces a dependency on an external tool, and 
it avoids being influenced by syntax changes in SWIG.  I have done 
similar work in the past, for Python bindings of PixelToaster 
(pixeltoaster.com, though the binding itself is in a dusty corner 
somewhere =).  I also know a few things about the inner guts of Python, 
because we (a friend and me) have written our own C++/Python binding 
tools in our LASS library (just a bunch of macros: 
http://lass.sourceforge.net/docs/doxygen/html/d3/d7e/a01866.html).

What do you guys think?

Bram