Continuing with my coverage at RubyConf 2006, Kevin Clark presented on his Google Summer of Code project, mkrf. The intent of mkrf is to provide a rake replacement to mkmf. For those that don’t know, mkmf is the current “defacto standard for building C extensions to Ruby.” At the design level adheres to the kiss principle and will provide a simple and clear OO way to define Ruby extension make files. The work that went into mkrf will make it that much easier to develop Ruby extensions, which hopefully will provide a catalyst for more developers to get involved.
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