On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Jason Lunn <jason.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It has probably been a decade since I had a reason to try to use JNI. Does > anyone have any experience building Gems using that approach? Would it be > the case that there would be one JAR per supported platform (x64-mingw32, > x86_64-linux, universal-darwin, x86-mingw32), or would it be a fat jar > that include multiple JNI wrappers? > > I am not clear on what capabilities of the existing gem are needed to > satisfy the dependency of the Google Cloud gem (which is my personal > motivation to see this move forward). Maybe Mike Moore knows better if the > client side would be enough? > The Google Cloud gems are clients only, and so supporting the client-half of GRPC would be sufficient for our use of GRPC. > I think I prefer to see the JRuby support sit alongside the existing Ruby > code in the same repository, and tested in a consistent way. This will help > avoid breaking behavior from slipping into the C implementation that isn't > observed until someone thinks to update the other repo. It should also make > it less likely that a gem update is released for the C derived platforms > without a corresponding update for the JRuby variant. > > On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 1:30:59 PM UTC-5, apo...@google.com > wrote: >> >> As has been noted before, I think this would be possible by doing a pure >> implementation, wrapping the java client, or with a JNI wrapper over the >> C-core (these implementations probably end up relatively different from >> C-wrapping grpc-ruby). >> >> Actually one thing hasn't been noted yet: If only a client-side library >> is needed, then perhaps the jruby-platform target could only need to >> emulate the client-half of the c-wrapping grpc-ruby (would probably >> simplify things). >> >> As for where the project could live though, one option is it could go >> into the same grpc repo as current grpc-ruby. Another is it could be done >> entirely as a third party project in its own repo, for which we could give >> some guidance. >> >> On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 8:59:31 AM UTC-8, Jason Lunn wrote: >>> >>> There is a GRFC <https://github.com/grpc/proposal/pull/13> to add >>> support for the JRuby <http://jruby.org/> interpreter, which runs on >>> the JVM. >>> >>> Please provide all feedback on this thread. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "grpc.io" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to grpc-io+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to grpc-io@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/CAPR0QboCNYQ4f%3D4mZLNua-SmKwXfgR_4FAJf3XVJ9hqW16FOow%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
