Don't worry Eloy, I wouldn't dream of writing code before having written the tests first ;-)
On Friday, June 05, 2009, at 10:05AM, "Eloy Duran" <eloy.de.en...@gmail.com> wrote: >What would be great is if you could first complete the openssl part of >the rubyspec, which desperately needs some love. >Once that's done, and someone helped you out with a dev. setup, you >can use it to make sure the port works as it should. > >Eloy > >On 5 jun 2009, at 09:52, Allison Newman wrote: > >> 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 > >_______________________________________________ >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
