From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Date: 2008-11-01T10:38:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FFI 0.1.1 (Foreign Function Interface) for Ruby 1.8.6/7	and 1.9

* Charles Oliver Nutter (charles.nutter@sun.com) wrote:

> The JRuby team is proud to announce the release of FFI for Ruby
> 1.8.6/7 and 1.9!

> Finally, there's no need to write a C extension to call C libraries,
> and the same FFI code will work in Ruby 1.8.6/7, Ruby 1.9, JRuby
> 1.1.4+, and Rubinius (though Rubinius has no callback support yet).

Awesome.  I've used DL to link up some custom libs to a Ruby service,
will give FFI a go and see how it compares :)

Are things like structs likely to be supported in future, ala Python
ctypes?

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