Request patch to Win32API.c

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Morning,

U.Nakamura usa@garbagecollect.jp said

We are planning to deprecate Win32API.
So we don’t want to add new features to Win32API.

What are you planning to depreciate the Win32API in favour off?

Rob

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Hello,

In message “Re: Request patch to Win32API.c”

We are planning to deprecate Win32API.
So we don’t want to add new features to Win32API.

What are you planning to depreciate the Win32API in favour off?

Ah, I should say;

You should use Ruby/DL instead of Win32API.
It has compatible layer of Win32API – require ‘dl/win32.rb’.
And if you want to use another feature which Win32API doesn’t have,
you should use Ruby/DL directly.

Regards,
sorry for my poor and wrong English ;-(

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on Mar.08,2004 19:32:26, robertm@spellmanhv.co.uk wrote:

U.Nakamura usa@garbagecollect.jp

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U.Nakamura wrote:

Hello,

In message “Re: Request patch to Win32API.c”

We are planning to deprecate Win32API.
So we don’t want to add new features to Win32API.

What are you planning to depreciate the Win32API in favour off?

Ah, I should say;

You should use Ruby/DL instead of Win32API.
It has compatible layer of Win32API – require ‘dl/win32.rb’.
And if you want to use another feature which Win32API doesn’t have,
you should use Ruby/DL directly.

Regards,
sorry for my poor and wrong English ;-(

Is there any English documentation for Ruby/DL?

In the http://ttsky.net/ruby/ruby-dl-sample/win32/volume.rb example, I see calls to ‘DL.malloc(1000)’ but no calls to free(). Does this mean that Ruby’s GC will free the memory when it is no longer referenced or should there be a call to free() in the example?

Thanks, Michael

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on Mar.08,2004 19:32:26, <robertm@spellmanhv.co.uk> wrote:
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I wonder: there is a generalized effort to port bindings for C library
to ruby/dl ?

This seems interesting, if ruby/dl is much used in the core libraries
it may grow even out of them and that would be cool, allowing easier
usage of packages that, atm, need a pre-compilated binary for
platforms that generally do not have a compiler toolchain
(i.e. windows or my linux box at the university that desn’t have
include files for nothing :slight_smile:

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il Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:51:00 +0900, “U.Nakamura” usa@garbagecollect.jp ha scritto::

Hello,

In message “Re: Request patch to Win32API.c”
on Mar.08,2004 19:32:26, robertm@spellmanhv.co.uk wrote:

We are planning to deprecate Win32API.
So we don’t want to add new features to Win32API.

What are you planning to depreciate the Win32API in favour off?

Ah, I should say;

You should use Ruby/DL instead of Win32API.
It has compatible layer of Win32API – require ‘dl/win32.rb’.
And if you want to use another feature which Win32API doesn’t have,
you should use Ruby/DL directly.

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Michael Davis wrote:

Is there any English documentation for Ruby/DL?
In the http://ttsky.net/ruby/ruby-dl-sample/win32/volume.rb example, I
see calls to ‘DL.malloc(1000)’ but no calls to free(). Does this mean
that Ruby’s GC will free the memory when it is no longer referenced or
should there be a call to free() in the example?

Thanks, Michael

there’s ext/dl/doc/dl.txt file in cvs. And yes, Ruby’s GC will release
the memory allocated by DL.malloc method when it is no longer
referenced. You don’t have to free it explicitly.

/kent