Re: [MacRuby-devel] zlib status

2009-08-20 Thread Eloy Duran
Hey Laurent, Fair enough, point taken :) Eloy On 19 aug 2009, at 00:20, Laurent Sansonetti wrote: Hi Eloy, I would also love to have a ffi-based zlib but we need zlib urgently for RubyGems and I don't think our FFI implementation will be ready soon. It is still our objective to finish FF

Re: [MacRuby-devel] zlib status

2009-08-18 Thread Laurent Sansonetti
Hi Eloy, I would also love to have a ffi-based zlib but we need zlib urgently for RubyGems and I don't think our FFI implementation will be ready soon. It is still our objective to finish FFI and maybe we can quickly rewrite the extension in pure Ruby for the release. The current extensio

Re: [MacRuby-devel] zlib status

2009-08-18 Thread Matt Aimonetti
Great, good luck Patrick! - Matt On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Patrick Thomson wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm working on porting ext/zlib to MacRuby right now. I took a look at > zliby - though it's certainly nice to have a zlib implementation in pure > Ruby, zliby seems to be kind of dead in

Re: [MacRuby-devel] zlib status

2009-08-18 Thread Eloy Duran
Hey Patrick, How about the getting the ffi zlib implementation to work? Seems to me that it would kill two birds with one stone, i.e. getting FFI in a more usable state and a C backed zlib implementation. Eloy On 18 aug 2009, at 23:52, Patrick Thomson wrote: Hi everyone, I'm working on

[MacRuby-devel] zlib status

2009-08-18 Thread Patrick Thomson
Hi everyone, I'm working on porting ext/zlib to MacRuby right now. I took a look at zliby - though it's certainly nice to have a zlib implementation in pure Ruby, zliby seems to be kind of dead in the water (according to its RubyForge page, it hasn't been updated in almost a year). Additionall