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Thanks John, I will look at the #pack and #unpack along with File.

----- Original Message ----
From: John Lam (IRONRUBY) <jflam@microsoft.com>
To: "ironruby-core@rubyforge.org" <ironruby-core@rubyforge.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 11:14:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] external contribution question

Unnikrishnan Nair:

> Just curious, which are all the modules need help with? I am
> interested in contributing.
> Thanks.

There are a lot of methods in File that need to be implemented. That 
should be a reasonable place to start. We have some bugs in Dir#glob 
that could use some attention too.

If you want a good self-contained project that will take some time, take 
a look at implementing #pack and #unpack.

Thanks,
-John

I'll add byte array support to MutableString soon, meanwhile work with 
List<byte> or byte[] in #pack and #unpack methods. Or start with File. 
Maybe I can make MutableStr before you need it for pack/unpack.

Tomas

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Nair
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:42 AM
To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] external contribution question

Thanks John, I will look at the #pack and #unpack along with File.
----- Original Message ----
From: John Lam (IRONRUBY) <jflam@microsoft.com>
To: "ironruby-core@rubyforge.org" <ironruby-core@rubyforge.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 11:14:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] external contribution question

Unnikrishnan Nair:

> Just curious, which are all the modules need help with? I am
> interested in contributing.
> Thanks.

There are a lot of methods in File that need to be implemented. That 
should be a reasonable place to start. We have some bugs in Dir#glob 
that could use some attention too.

If you want a good self-contained project that will take some time, take 
a look at implementing #pack and #unpack.

Thanks,
-John