I know OpenSSL and crypto pretty well (having spent the last 5 years working for a DRM company), but I don't know anything about the MacRuby backend, nor FFI. But if someone wants to offer to hold my hand whilst getting a dev environment set up, I'd be willing to do the heavy lifting for OpenSSL.
Alli On Friday, June 05, 2009, at 09:48AM, "Charles Oliver Nutter" <charles.nut...@sun.com> wrote: >Laurent Sansonetti wrote: >> OpenSSL might be way harder given the richness of its API (as well as >> the fact that every release seems to introduce API breakage). > >I was going to say basically that but didn't want to discourage anyone. >So I'll say it now: OpenSSL would be a serious pain to wrap. Someone >please do it :) > >BTW, there is a SWIG-based FFI generator floating around out there. >Inquire on the ruby-ffi lists. > >> What about creating a list somewhere of popular C extensions that we >> would like to see ported? This way volunteers would have a TODO list. >> >> I googled a little bit but I wasn't able to find an existing list. >> >> It looks like the Ruby-FFI official homepage is >> http://kenai.com/projects/ruby-ffi/pages/Home, it does contain a >> "projects using FFI" page but it's not very complete. I will google more >> and try to fix the page, first (any help is welcome :)). > >Yeah, I'd say try to update there, and *anyone* interested in FFI should >get on the ruby-ffi mailing lists and express their interest. > >- Charlie >_______________________________________________ >MacRuby-devel mailing list >MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
