From: Thomas Enebo <Thomas.Enebo@...>
Date: 2009-02-18T00:35:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ffi-ncurses version 0.3.1

Sean O'Halpin wrote:
> ffi-ncurses version 0.3.1
>     by Sean O'Halpin
>     http://github.com/seanohalpin/ffi-ncurses
>
> == DESCRIPTION
>
> A wrapper for ncurses 5.x. 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.
>
> This point release fixes a problem with installing as a gem under
> JRuby, caused by
> the fact that JRuby has a built-in ffi and there does not appear to be a way
> to specify per-platform gem dependencies in a gemspec.
>
> To install:
>
> Ruby 1.8.6
>
> $ sudo gem install ffi ffi-ncurses
>
> JRuby 1.1.6
>
> $ jruby -S gem install ffi-ncurses
>
> Basic docs at http://ffi-ncurses.rubyforge.org. See the examples directory for
> real working code.
>
> Regards,
> Sean
>
>   
Sean,

   How easy would it be to wire up a compatible curses API (C-extension) 
on top of ffi-ncurses?  JRuby is still missing this library and for 
compatibility-sake it would be nice to have this missing piece added?  
The plus if it is not so tough is we would end up making ffi-ncurses a 
distribution gem for JRuby too :)

-Tom