OT: Cypto Lib

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 16 13:56:11 UTC 2009


On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:55:33PM -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> I was hoping M2Crypto was using SWIG, because than it's just a matter of 
> calling swig with the -ruby switch and you have instant interface 
> bindings for Ruby as far as I understand.
>
> I started to play around with SWIG and liked the fact that you can 
> leverage SWIG interfaces to map C/C++ code to other languages like Ruby, 
> Perl, Python, over a dozen other languages to pick.
>
> Unfortunately the SWIG mailing list is pretty limp, great tool with good  
> document, but they need to build a more active community, then again 
> maybe not that many people get this deep into coding.

But if the tool works and is feature complete, why does it need an
active community?  It is done. :)

> I am still waiting for a reply about memory allocation and GC behavior on 
> C/C++   allocated memory and passed to Ruby, or vice versa.
>

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