Re: [ruby-ffi] Standardizing the FFI specs

We've had a couple of threads about this in the last 6 months, and although I think FFI developers are in favor of a unifying / standard test suite, nobody has had the time or the will to be point-man for the project.

So: thanks for volunteering?

The API is pretty stable at this point, I think -- at least between CRuby/MRI and JRuby, which have recently been the biggest supporters of FFI.

I'm willing to help unify and standardize, if someone is willing to coordinate and pester all the people who need to be pestered.

-m

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Ernest Prabhakar <ernest.prabhakar@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

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