OT: Cypto Lib

[Rajinder Yadav]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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 know you know what I am about to say already...

people need a place to go ask questions and learn that is why i like active 
community sponsorship, also things are never complete in software, the moment 
they are complete, they are dead or it may seem that was to some people, wrongly 
or rightly.

SWIG developers are still working on the next release to better incorporate C++ 
into SWIG., so it's not dead or done yet =)

I will keep on said limp mailing list(ML) to lurk, learn, and provide answers if 
I can. This is pretty much what I did when I was learning Ruby, although it was 
very easy to learn with my C++ background, on the ML I picked up a few tricks 
here and there that I might not have otherwise if I was just writing and eating 
my own "dog food" ;) ... For instance I learned the proper way to redefine a 
class method to perform a deep copy of an object. The obvious way to me was 
wrong and it was broken. I asked why it was broken and I got a lot of insights, 
many update to my Ruby Quick Note doc, which by the way is now up to 107 pages!

As you know TLUG is an active community and I enjoy this ML a lot, great smart 
people, smarter than me, except for you Mr.....I kid!!!

> 
>> 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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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav

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