From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-02-16T09:56:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [ruby-ffi] [ANN] ffi-ncurses version 0.3.0

I noticed this tries to install the ruby-ffi gem on JRuby. Perhaps we 
need to have a dummy ffi gem for JRuby that does nothing more than turn 
on our built-in support, so that gem authors can depend on 'ffi'?

Sean O'Halpin wrote:
> ffi-ncurses version 0.3.0
>     by Sean O'Halpin
>     http://github.com/seanohalpin/ffi-ncurses
> 
> == DESCRIPTION
> 
> ffi-ncurses is an FFI wrapper for ncurses 5.x.
> 
> This is the first release of a gem on rubyforge.
> 
> Tested on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and Ubuntu 8.04 with ruby 1.8.6
> using ruby-ffi (>= 0.2.0) and JRuby 1.1.6.
> 
> The API is a transliteration of the C API rather than an attempt to
> provide an idiomatic Ruby object-oriented API. The intent is to
> provide a 'close to the metal' wrapper around the ncurses library upon
> which you can build your own abstractions.
> 
> This is still very much a work-in-progress, so expect some rough
> edges. Having said that, you can do quite a lot with it as it is. The
> main things left to be done are documentation, tests and access to
> global variables in JRuby.
> 
> I don't have an issue tracker set up yet but I'm happy to receive feedback
> via email.
> 
> See the examples directory for real working examples.
> 
> == INSTALL
> 
> $ sudo gem install ffi-ncurses
> 
> == CHANGES
> 
> * Features
>   * Use FFI::NCurses rather than NCurses
>   * Removed dependency on rubygems
>   * Reorganised library layout
> 
> From the README:
> 
> == Usage
> 
> Load the library with:
> 
>   require 'ffi-ncurses'
> 
> FFI::NCurses methods can be called as module methods:
> 
>   begin
>     stdscr = FFI::NCurses.initscr
>     FFI::NCurses.clear
>     FFI::NCurses.addstr("Hello world!")
>     FFI::NCurses.refresh
>     FFI::NCurses.getch
>   ensure
>     FFI::NCurses.endwin
>   end
> 
> or as included methods:
> 
>   require 'ffi-ncurses'
>   include FFI::NCurses
>   begin
>     stdscr = initscr
>     start_color
>     curs_set 0
>     raw
>     cbreak
>     noecho
>     clear
>     move 10, 10
>     standout
>     addstr("Hi!")
>     standend
>     refresh
>     getch
>   ensure
>     endwin
>   end
> 
> There's more in the README and examples, including how to create windows, use
> the mouse and how to interpret keypresses.
> 
> Regards,
> Sean