From: Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@...>
Date: 2005-04-12T23:08:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing SVN through Ruby

Bob Aman wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2005 11:33 PM, Saynatkari <ruby-ml@magical-cat.org> wrote:
> 
>>Hey, it is not that bad. See the snippet at the end that
>>I wrote for a 'native' extension. The code is not all that
>>great (I was mainly trying to get it to just work) but
>>that Apache Portable Runtime is some truly horrible stuff.
> 
> 
> Yes, it is, and this is one of the main reasons I want something more
> "ruby-like" than the straight up Ruby SWIG bindings.  "Er, pools?  Why
> should I have to think about pools?  This is Ruby, for goodness
> sakes!"  The thing is ugly, even by C standards.

I've wrapped two libraries with SWIG. In both cases, I ended up writing
a layer of syntax sugar in Ruby, purely to make the API more Ruby-like.
One of those efforts is described here:

https://cvs.comedi.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/comedilib/swig/ruby/README?rev=1.4&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

It's possible to do some of this in SWIG itself, but Ruby is easier, at
least for me.

Steve