From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-02-24T02:06:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Externsion specifications, was Re: Euruko 2003 (1st European Ruby Conference) Over

Simon Strandgaard wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:41:50 +0200, MikkelFJ wrote:
> 
> 
>>There need to be a specification of the C-API for extension developers.
>>This should include levels of support such that e.g. new 1.8 functions is in
>>a different class.
> 
> 
> recently I started adding such documentation here:
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyApi
> 
> I hope many more of the common used function will find thier way to these
> pages. At the moment its more a user-manual to the extension/embedding
> API, than it is a reference-manual. 
> 
> I would like comments on this:  
> * what should such site contain ?
> * what is the most common extension/embedding functions ?
> * how should it be presented to the user ?
> * how much text should be written about each function ?
> 
> 
> How can the links be improved. Example:
> [/RbClassNewInstance rb_class_new_instance(argc, argv, class)]
> How do I get rid of '/RbClassNewInstance', so it doesn't show up in the
> link ?


Better late than never (been migrating my old mail store to IMAP, and 
saw this lying around)!

I've fix0red it, is the information still relevant, do you know?