[MacRuby-devel] Contributions (Was: Experimental branch status)

[Allison Newman]

I know OpenSSL and crypto pretty well (having spent the last 5 years working for a DRM company), but I don't know anything about the MacRuby backend, nor FFI.  But if someone wants to offer to hold my hand whilst getting a dev environment set up, I'd be willing to do the heavy lifting for OpenSSL.

Alli

 

On Friday, June 05, 2009, at 09:48AM, "Charles Oliver Nutter" <charles.nutter at sun.com> wrote:
>Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
>> OpenSSL might be way harder given the richness of its API (as well as 
>> the fact that every release seems to introduce API breakage).
>
>I was going to say basically that but didn't want to discourage anyone. 
>So I'll say it now: OpenSSL would be a serious pain to wrap. Someone 
>please do it :)
>
>BTW, there is a SWIG-based FFI generator floating around out there. 
>Inquire on the ruby-ffi lists.
>
>> What about creating a list somewhere of popular C extensions that we 
>> would like to see ported? This way volunteers would have a TODO list.
>> 
>> I googled a little bit but I wasn't able to find an existing list.
>> 
>> It looks like the Ruby-FFI official homepage is 
>> http://kenai.com/projects/ruby-ffi/pages/Home, it does contain a 
>> "projects using FFI" page but it's not very complete. I will google more 
>> and try to fix the page, first (any help is welcome :)).
>
>Yeah, I'd say try to update there, and *anyone* interested in FFI should 
>get on the ruby-ffi mailing lists and express their interest.
>
>- Charlie
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