[cfe-dev] Potential Summer of Code Project: Ruby bindings for libclang

[Argyrios Kyrtzidis]

Brian,

I appreciate your interest, but I think that a Ruby bindings project will realistically be less likely to gather enough interest compared to other project ideas.

You mentioned "I'd like to work on expanding the libclang API in general", if you were to expand this in a project proposal it could be more promising.

On Feb 24, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Brian Gesiak <modocache at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> My name is Brian Gesiak. I'm a research student at the University of Tokyo, and I'm very excited for Google Summer of Code this year (see http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 for details)! I'd like to propose a potential project and see if anyone on this list has any feedback.
> 
> I'd like to work on libclang bindings. I think the bindings are a common starting point for developers who wish to get started with Clang. I'm hoping that improving them could have a big impact.
> 
> Specifically, I'd like to work on the following three milestones:
> 
> 1. Ruby bindings for libclang, added to the Clang repository and packaged a RubyGem
> 2. Refactoring the Python bindings; removing FIXMEs, breaking cindex.py into multiple files for easier reading
> 3. Improving documentation on libclang; adding READMEs to the Python and Ruby bindings, as well as sample applications
> 
> If I can achieve the above three milestones with some time to spare, I'd like to work on expanding the libclang API in general.
> 
> Before becoming a research student, I used to work as an iOS developer. In recent years many in the Objective-C community have used Ruby to make development tools. I'm hoping that adding Ruby bindings and improving documentation for libclang will have a large impact on the community.
> 
> However, I'm not sure how big of a priority libclang is for this project. It's not mentioned on the list of open projects (see http://clang.llvm.org/OpenProjects.html), so please let me know if I'm barking up the wrong tree. LLVM is my top choice as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code this year, so if libclang isn't a viable project I'll try to propose something else.
> 
> Thanks for your time! Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated.
> 
> - Brian Gesiak
> 
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