From: Thomas Enebo <Thomas.Enebo@...>
Date: 2009-02-18T01:29:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ffi-ncurses version 0.3.1

Sean O'Halpin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Thomas Enebo <Thomas.Enebo@sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> It's on my roadmap. I'm planning to add an Ncurses compatibility layer
> (but without the Menu and Forms interfaces to start with).
>
> Regards,
> Sean
>   
Cool beans.  We wish an army of ffi-lovers would come up and rewrite 
most of the thin-layer shim extensions...  We are spread pretty thin.  
Thanks Sean...

-Tom