[Spice_discussion] Creation of a Ruby Wrapper for C SPICE underSciRuby

[John Woods]

Gaurav, do you maybe want to share your GSOC proposal? Then people will be
better able to provide comments. :)

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:29 PM Barry Carter <
spice_discuss at barrycarter.info> wrote:

> Are you familiar with http://lunaserv.lroc.asu.edu/naif-spice.html, have
> you
> written any code so far, and will you be using SWIG http://www.swig.org/ ?
>
>
> On Sat, 14 May 2016, Gaurav Tamba wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 10:22:30 +0530
> > From: Gaurav Tamba <gaurav.tamba at gmail.com>
> > To: spice_discussion at naif.jpl.nasa.gov
> > Subject: [Spice_discussion] Creation of a Ruby Wrapper for C SPICE under
> >     SciRuby
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I hope you're all doing great. I'm an undergraduate engineering student
> > from India and I'm working on a project this summer for Google Summer of
> > Code where I'll be making a wrapper interface for the C SPICE library in
> > Ruby mentored by SciRuby (Formally, the project is listed here
> > <https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5642148519084032>)
> >
> > One of my main goals for this project besides just making a working
> wrapper
> > in Ruby that ports the API, is to create an additional abstracted
> ruby-like
> > API  (the obvious bit is to make a simpler API, but another task is
> > grouping multiple related functions into one function call for commonly
> > compounded tasks) and to make the use of SPICE a better experience for
> one
> > not so comfortable in C or FORTRAN.
> >
> > I unfortunately have very little experience with the SPICE toolkit and am
> > primarily referring to this list here
> > <https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit_docs/C/info/mostused.html>
> for
> > prioritizing which functions to port first. (Since the actual SPICE
> library
> > API is really large, it may not be possible to port more than a subset of
> > these features in the summer coding period, but I have no intention to
> stop
> > after that period is over either)
> >
> > I'd be immensely obliged if anyone could share their most frequent use
> > cases with SPICE. This would help the most in the completion of the
> project.
> >
> > I realize I've been vague about the specifics so please feel free to ask
> me
> > any specific ruby/non-ruby doubts about the wrapper.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Gaurav
> >
>
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