[Libburn] Ruby bindings for libburn

Derek Foreman manmower@signalmarketing.com
Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:23:04 -0600 (CST)


On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Chris Anderson wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 10:48, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > Just to tell you that I am going to start binding libburn to the Ruby
> > programming language.

Very cool :)

> > I have nevertheless 2 questions:
> >
> >      1. Is the API going to change within the next days?  If yes, when
> >         the API will be stabilized?
>
> There should be an API freeze once the alpha is released. Currently it
> looks like there might even be an alpha out this week.

Yes, There will be an alpha release any day now, which will signify a
freeze of a significant portion of the API.  (Most writing functions, and
device capability reporting)

When I make the release, I'll try to be quite clear on which parts of the
api are set in stone, and which are still a little iffy.

> >      2. Is it possible to embed the bindings in the official package?
> >         It will be really useful for Ruby developers to have the
> >         bindings installed by default with the library.  Of course the
> >         bindings won't be installed if Ruby isn't present in the system.
>
> I think this is still under debate I believe, Derek would know more.

I don't think we want to include bindings in the main distribution.  I
suspect making a release would become more difficult with each included
binding, and I worry that if a developer loses interest, we'll end up with
unmaintained code in the package.