Tomas,
Thanks for getting back at me. I think it would be wise to start with something that I know. I’ve written a plugin for VS2010 before, and feel quite comfortable doing that, even though it’s a large and complex environment. I’ll check out the IronRuby VS integration as it is. What I like about programming Ruby Netbeans and RubyMine is that they have a built in test runner for RSpec. Is there an RSpec test runner for VS and IronRuby? If not, that would be a fun task to start with :) Gøran On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Tomas Matousek < tomas.matou...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Hi Gøran, > > Good to see your interest. > > > > The Wiki might be a bit out of date. Some areas that need work and nobody’s > working on them afaik (if anyone works on it, speak up) are > > - Complex and Rational numbers (new to 1.9): to make stuff work I > took 1.8 implementations and loaded them to emulate builtin Complex and > Rational classes. This is a big hack. We need to implement these classes in > C# in the standard libraries. To support .NET interop the implementation > should also convert to the existing Complex type on the platform. This is a > good task for someone who likes hacking numbers. > > - Related one: although BigDecimal class is implemented it feels > like it needs some perf improvements – I noticed some specs are running > quite slower than MRI. There are also some failing specs in BigDecimal (and > BigNum) that would be good to fix so that we have fully compatible > implementation. > > - If you are into cryptography one big missing piece is OpenSSL > implementation. There might be pieces that you can share with IronPython’s > ssl library implementation. > > - Then there is bunch of misc failing specs that need to be > fixed. One big area is ARGF but there are many others as well. See > External.LCA_RESTRICTED\Languages\IronRuby\mspec\ironruby-tags-19. > > - If you were more interested in compiler and runtime you can > look into implementing nested method parameters and optional block > parameters. This is quite tricky though you need to really understand how > the runtime works to implement it correctly. > > - VS integration always needs improvements. The VS is quite > complex environment so it takes a while to learn how it works. > > > > Then there is FFI implementation going on – maybe it needs some help? > > > > Let me know if you have any questions. > > > > Thanks, > > Tomas > > > > *From:* ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto: > ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] *On Behalf Of *Gøran Hansen > *Sent:* Saturday, October 23, 2010 12:31 AM > *To:* IronRuby Group > *Subject:* [Ironruby-core] Contributions > > > > Hi there > > I would love to contribute to this open source project. I’ve been learning > Ruby for the last year, and I’ve fallen in love with the language. It’s not > in my way, it’s fun and productive. > > I’ve been a .NET developer for too many years, and it was really fun to > experience such a great language as Ruby outside the .NET world. > Nevertheless, I would love to be able to run Ruby upon the .NET runtime, > especially in my projects at work. For me to be able to use it in real world > projects, it has to become faster and more stable. My employer is a big fan > of standardization and well known solutions. They wouldn’t go for anything > except Java or .NET. I’m sure they don’t mind what language we use, but they > do care about the platform. > > How can I help? Are the Contribution ideas still valid? > http://github.com/ironruby/ironruby/wiki/Contribution-Ideas > > When things ended as they did, and Microsoft stopped to support the Iron* > languages, I was really happy how they made the handover to the community. > With Miguel and his team in charge, I’m sure this is going to end well. I > believe there are many .NET developers out there that would love to be able > to run Ruby code in .NET. > > Hope to hear from you soon! > > -- > Gøran Hansen > Aspiring Software Craftsman > Microsoft Regional Director > > http://twitter.com/goeran > http://goeran.no > m...@goeran.no > +47 452 39 113 > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > -- Gøran Hansen Aspiring Software Craftsman Microsoft Regional Director & MVP http://twitter.com/goeran http://goeran.no m...@goeran.no +47 452 39 113
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