[MacRuby-devel] Experimental branch status

Eloy Duran eloy.de.enige at gmail.com
Fri May 29 06:57:56 PDT 2009


I haven't actively spoken about this with Laurent over the last week,  
but afaik not much changed since last time, which means that the  
support is not nearly far enough to start using it. We decided that we  
want the FFI specs in the repo in order to finish this work  
appropriately, which would need work to be converted from RSpec to  
MSpec.

Luckily Brian Ford (from the rubyspec project) was already planning on  
incorporating them. I haven't had time to check if they're in yet. So  
this is another area where people could help out. By porting the ruby- 
ffi specs to mspec and integrating them into the rubyspec.

Cheers,
Eloy

On May 29, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Chuck Remes wrote:

> How is progress on support FFI? That seems to be the new ruby-way  
> for interfacing to native code supported by JRuby, Rubinius and to  
> some extent the 1.9.x codeline. With FFI built in, as gems are  
> updated to support the other ruby interpreters and/or compilers then  
> MacRuby would be supported for "free" through those efforts.
>
> cr
>
> On May 28, 2009, at 11:42 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>
>> The other thing that needs to be done is to port/fix the popular  
>> Ruby gems which don't work on MacRuby yet. Also, writing wrappers  
>> for common obj-c libraries/frameworks would be very useful.
>>
>> If you are interested in writing tutorials/articles, feel free to  
>> contact me offline so I can show you how to use our blog engine  
>> tool. (I think Rich is planning on releasing a tutorial on how to  
>> do that, but that might not happen right away)
>>
>> - Matt
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