[ANN] ffi-ncurses version 0.3.1

[Sean O'Halpin]

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

 

[Thomas Enebo]

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

 

[Sean O'Halpin]

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

 

[Thomas Enebo]

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