On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:37:16PM -0700, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
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Kris Maglione wrote:
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 11:33:38AM -0700, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
Were you doing the port by hand? If so, SWIG[1] can totally
eliminate that task.
Yes, I know of SWIG and decided against using it. In my experience, SWIG
creates ugly, kludgy interfaces. I would very much prefer to have a
clean ruby interface to the -l9p backend. The interface is very small,
so it won't take much effort.
Well, I'm going to try my luck with libixp & SWIG once my summer
vacation begins. I'll post again, once libixp emits that shiny red
sparkle we've all come to love. ;-)
Also, I updated my Ruby wmii configuration according to everyone's
feedback and snippets and put them online[1].
If I were you, I wouldn't waste my time. I can almost garuntee you that
libixp+SWIG->ruby will give you a crufty interface. You'd be able to write an
interface to ixp_client for ruby in less than a half hour's time with little
effort. It's honestly not worth it, imo, though. It would be incredibly easy
to just port the ixp_client code to ruby and have a portable library. There's
really not that much code there, and it would be even less in ruby (if done
right).
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