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

Allison Newman demallien at me.com
Fri Jun 5 01:06:53 PDT 2009


 Don't worry Eloy, I wouldn't dream of writing code before having written the tests first ;-)

On Friday, June 05, 2009, at 10:05AM, "Eloy Duran" <eloy.de.enige at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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