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

[Eloy Duran]

What would be great is if you could first complete the openssl part of  
the rubyspec, which desperately needs some love.
Once that's done, and someone helped you out with a dev. setup, you  
can use it to make sure the port works as it should.

Eloy

On 5 jun 2009, at 09:52, Allison Newman wrote:

> 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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