Since this is becoming something of a FAQ ("How can I help?"), perhaps
someone could start a Help Wanted page for MacRuby (somewhere on the
web site) and copy stuff like the following into it? Then, at least,
every time the FAQ came up, you could simply point people at the
shared TODO list. If MacRuby ever gets a proper FAQ, you could also
link the "How can I help?" entry in it to this hypothetical page...
Just a thought.
- Jordan
On May 29, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
So, to recap, I think the following contributions will be welcome:
- Maintaining the website (blog, content, etc.) and writing
tutorials. There are lots of very interesting blog posts around that
could I think be transformed into a tutorial or into a recipe
(shorter tutorial). I think we need more recipes, for instance how
to embed MacRuby in your app, how to use a specific and complex
Cocoa class (NSOutlineView/NSTableView/etc.) in Ruby, etc.
- Writing / translating sample code for MacRuby. We will bundle it
in the MacRuby distribution. If you wrote anything interesting in
MacRuby that could be used as a sample code, let us now. Creating
new sample code is cool, but porting an existing Objective-C sample
code is good too.
- Specs: working on the 1.8 -> 1.9 rubyspec transition (see Eloy's
message above). Eloy is currently doing all the specs maintenance as
well and I think he will not be against help :) Also, we recently
started writing MacRuby-specific specs, they need to be extended.
Finally, we need to start working on passing the core specs (we only
did language so far).
- Porting C extensions to the Ruby FFI API. We started working on a
compatible Ruby FFI API, we still have a plan to support C
extensions but not in the very near future and the performance will
not be great, FFI will be faster. Also if most of the well-known C
extensions have been ported, we might simply decide to not support C
extensions, which is one less thing to do. Also, working on Ruby FFI-
compatible libraries will make JRuby / Rubinius / etc. users happy :)
- HotCocoa: I will leave this part to Rich and Matt, but I think
they will be mostly interested in mappings. Try to create a HotCocoa
app, then contribute mappings for things that do not exist (or
improve the existing ones by contributing custom methods, etc.).
- Core: there are lots of things to do, if you feel hacking on the
low-level bits. We maintain a TODO file which contains a few things
that still need to be done. At this point, the JIT compiler is
almost finished (AOT is maybe finished at 10%, though) and the VM is
still under development. A good way to start hacking is to run the
test_vm.rb test suite, pick a failing test and try to fix it.
Contributing new failing tests is also highly welcome, you can
simply use the miniruby executable and try to make it crash (it's
not hard, you will see).
- ... anything more? :)
Laurent
On May 29, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Eloy Duran wrote:
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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