+1 for CLR/C# extensions --- Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto Carrero Blog: http://flanders.co.nz Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero)
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Tomas Matousek <tomas.matou...@microsoft.com > wrote: > On the other hand, using a native extension is worse than using a pure > C#/Ruby equivalent. Native interop doesn't work in partial trust > (Silverlight, web servers, etc) and supporting more platforms (Windows, > Linux, MacOS, etc) would need more work. So if there is some useful Ruby > native extension with stable API it makes sense to implement it in Ruby with > .NET interop or directly in C#. > > Tomas > > -----Original Message----- > From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto: > ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Shri Borde > Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:11 AM > To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Native Extensions > > It's is a large workitem, so it would be post 1.0. Tomas thinks some of the > code can be reused from the IronPython equivalent (the ctypes library), but > it would still be a fair amount of work. > > I think Win32API is a weak equivalent, and someone could start playing with > it for accessing native extension. There would be work on the native > extensions to expose the functionality as dllexports, and this can be pushed > on right now without waiting for IronRuby to support FFI... > > -----Original Message----- > From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto: > ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Thibaut Barrère > Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 5:16 AM > To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Native Extensions > > > IronRuby supports neither FFI nor Ruby/dl. So you would have to use > pinvokes from C# for now. > > just wondering: is there a remotely vague intention of having FFI support > at some point for IronRuby ? > > just curious if someone actually thought about implementing this, > > -- Thibaut > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core >
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