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

[Eloy Duran]

Awesome Alli :D
Maybe that the specs of Ruby-FFI can give you the insights on how to  
use it?

It would be best to work on a clone of rubyspec directly. I'll try to  
merge the latest rubyspec in macruby at least once a week.

Thanks!

On 5 jun 2009, at 10:06, Allison Newman wrote:

> 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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