Re: [GNUnet-developers] Wrapping GNUnet in ruby

[Peter Schrammel]

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Thanks to Bart and Sree for their support!
Finally we understood the core concepts of gnunet and were able to
hack together a small lib. It's on github
(https://github.com/pschrammel/gnunet). I'll continue to work on it
(promissed). Perhaps some students can explore gnunet more easily with
this :-)

Thanks again
Peter


Am 08.07.2013 18:31, schrieb Christian Grothoff:
> On 07/04/2013 09:24 PM, Peter Schrammel wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> there will be Hackathon in a week where I'd like to lay the
>> basics for a ruby framework over GNUnet (see 
>> http://www.meetup.com/Munich-Rubyshift-Ruby-User-Group/events/125381152/
>>
>> 
or the Gnunet page).
>> 
>> 1. You are welcome to drop by and help us to understand the
>> concepts of gnunet better. Just mail me if you need more info.
>> 
>> 2. I don't want to go to C level und call back ruby from C
>> (possible but too hard coupled and might frighten people). As far
>> as I have seen there's a socket based interface (gnunet-java uses
>> it). Do I get all messages over this interface? What's not
>> possible? Is this still the right aproach?
> 
> Well, you theoretically get access to everything using this
> approach.  The only subsystem where this causes trouble is
> file-sharing, as a significant part of the logic is implemented on
> the client-side of the socket (the file-sharing service moves
> encrypted blocks around, the client-side does everything that is
> needed to put the files back together from the blocks). As a
> result, 75% of the FS-logic is probably in the client library.
> 
> For all of the other services, it is the case that > 75% of the
> logic are in the service itself, and the client library is just a
> tiny wrapper providing a C API.  So unless you want access to the
> FS service, the socket-based interface is what you want; however,
> while the socket APIs tend to be simple messages, they also tend to
> be not very well documented (as in: "read the C code to understand
> how it works").
> 
> Naturally, improvements to that documentation would be appreciated
> ;-).
> 
> 
> Happy hacking!
> 
> Christian
> 
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