Awesome Alli :D
Maybe that the specs of Ruby-FFI can give you the insights on how to use it?

It would be best to work on a clone of rubyspec directly. I'll try to merge the latest rubyspec in macruby at least once a week.

Thanks!

On 5 jun 2009, at 10:06, Allison Newman wrote:

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
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