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

Eloy Duran eloy.de.enige at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 01:20:21 PDT 2009


Ah there are even some samples: http://kenai.com/projects/ruby-ffi/sources/mercurial/content/samples

On 5 jun 2009, at 10:11, Eloy Duran wrote:

> 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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