Sounds good to me! Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 3, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Charles Strahan <charles.c.stra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ryan, > > Sorry for the long delay - I meant to give it some thought before I got back > to you... and know it's been quite some time. > > I think it would be a good idea to replicate JFFI, using P/Invoke directly, > if possible (as opposed to P/Invoking libffi). That would give us a good > separation of concerns and a reusable library, and possibly an easy way to > port any Java/JRuby code that uses JFFI to C#/.NET too. > > I'm about to set up an NFFI repo at http://github.com/cstrahan/nffi. - I > suppose you could fork it and send me pull requests (unless you have a better > workflow in mind - I'm definitely not a git guru). I've been learning C/C++ > the last couple months, so I should be able to write simple DLL to run our > tests against. I think I'll take a TDD approach to driving out the C# lib. > Once we have NFFI working, it should be relatively straightforward to expose > that to the IronRuby runtime. I'll try to get something pushed out to my repo > by the end of tomorrow - I'll keep you in the loop. > > That's what I have in mind, but I'm open to suggestions. > > -Charles > > > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Ryan Riley <ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org> > wrote: > Charles, I'm happy to work with you to get this done. I'm getting close to > finishing some projects and will have more time to work on it in a few weeks. > I will send the info I got from the mono-devel list. Where/how do you want to > start? > > Ryan > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 20, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Charles Strahan <charles.c.stra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Ryan, >> >> I'm right there with you, only I looked at JFFI for inspiration (didn't know >> mono had anything - could you share more about that?). In fact, In my >> infinite laziness, I posted a job for a couple hundred bucks on >> Rent-A-Coder, hoping someone could essentially port JFFI to C#, so I could >> focus on writing the actually IronRuby library... but nothing came of that. >> >> I'm tempted to suck it up and start coding this myself. Would you be >> interested in working together? I figured I'd take the approach of >> essentially writing "NFFI", and then write an IronRuby lib around that. >> >> -Charles >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Ryan Riley <ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org> >> wrote: >> I know that we've discussed this in the past, but I'm interested in doing it >> for two reasons: >> 1. We use mono with a bridge to ObjectiveC and Cocoa, and we'd like to >> investigate libffi via mono as a potential replacement for our current >> bridge. >> 2. I'm interested just for the sake of learning more about FFI. >> >> Mono appears to have had a libffi implementation that was later removed, so >> I think I have a place to start. However, I'm not sure that's the right >> starting point. Does anyone have a suggestion for how to get started? I've >> been taking a look at libffi and DllImport, but I'm not sure if those are >> the right directions, something else, or what. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ryan Riley >> >> Email: ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org >> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanriley >> Twitter: @panesofglass >> Blog: http://wizardsofsmart.net/ >> Website: http://panesofglass.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
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