ruby bounties--list of bounties
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From: Tony Arcieri on 24 Jan 2010 09:56 [Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Looks like pure java Nokogiri is something popular--the bounty on it has > already risen to $225 > $250 now :) -- Tony Arcieri Medioh! A Kudelski Brand
From: Ammar Ali on 24 Jan 2010 16:55 Tony Arcieri wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005(a)gmail.com>wrote: > > >> Looks like pure java Nokogiri is something popular--the bounty on it has >> already risen to $225 >> >> > > $250 now :) > > Does a pure java anything qualify as a ruby bounty? Or is it a java bounty now? Maybe a ruby-envy bounty? :) ammar
From: Tony Arcieri on 24 Jan 2010 16:57 [Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Ammar Ali <ammarabuali(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Does a pure java anything qualify as a ruby bounty? Or is it a java bounty > now? Maybe a ruby-envy bounty? :) > The goal is a version of Nokogiri without any native code dependencies which runs entirely within the JVM. That doesn't mean it's written in Java or even necessarily includes any Java code at all: it could be pure Ruby interfacing with the native Java XML libraries. -- Tony Arcieri Medioh! A Kudelski Brand
From: Charles Oliver Nutter on 24 Jan 2010 22:34 On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Ammar Ali <ammarabuali(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Does a pure java anything qualify as a ruby bounty? Or is it a java bounty > now? Maybe a ruby-envy bounty? :) Considering most of the bounties are about C extensions to MRI, you're about as far off base as you could possibly be. :) - Charlie
From: Aaron Patterson on 25 Jan 2010 00:29
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 09:15:56PM +0900, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Looks like pure java Nokogiri is something popular--the bounty on it has > > already risen to $225 > > It's probably the most oft-encountered stumbling block for folks using > JRuby (these days), since Nokogiri itself has become very popular and > is now depended on by many other libraries. A pure-Java version would > never need special handling on any platform, would work on any > platform where JRuby works, and would not require native library > support at all. I thought FFI was supposed to solve this problem. Is it not? > I implore gem authors: think about who you might hurt with hard gem > dependencies on native extensions. At least provide an alternative > path. I implore Ruby implementors to support the MRI C api, as it too is part of Ruby's api. Think about who you hurt by not letting people reuse valuable libraries written in C. :-) -- Aaron Patterson http://tenderlovemaking.com/ |