Subject:
[ruby-ffi] Standardizing the FFI specs
From:
Ernest Prabhakar
Date:
12/14/09 4:17 PM
To:
ruby-ffi@googlegroups.com

Hi all,

This is Dr. Ernie, one of the MacRuby committers. We would like to add the FFI specs <http://github.com/ffi/ffi/tree/master/spec/ffi/> to our existing RubySpec tests.  

When I asked on the rubyspec list about what could be done to "mainstream" FFI, I was told:

On Dec 4, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Brian Ford wrote:
> The specs need quite a bit of cleanup to conform to the rubyspec style guide.

http://rubyspec.org/wiki/rubyspec/Style_Guide

> Also, the API is still in flux a bit. If you'd like to
> contribute to the specs or FFI API,  please coordinate with Evan
> Phoenix (evan in #rubinius on freenode.net) as he is the original API
> author and is trying to get the API standardized across
> implementations.

Evan, are you here? What process would you suggest? 

Should I file a bug about the specs (on Kenai)?  Or should I wait until the API stabilizes a bit more?

-- Ernie P.