[ruby-core:33758] Re: Proposal: IPAddress in the standard library

I'm really interested in this topic.

I the last couple of years I had to deal with IP manipulation several times,
especially for the Whois ( http://www.ruby-whois.org ) and Net::DNS gems.

I had the chance to give IPAddress a try in the past,
and I really enjoyed it. The current IPAddr implementation doesn't expose
some very useful methods,
such as the ability to validate an IP Address on-the-fly
without instantiating an IPAddr object,
and I often had to rely on hacks or cut&paste to accomplish this.

Also, IPAddr has a couple of weird bugs when you have to work with IP ranges
(thanks to Marco for helping me spotting them out in the past ;) ).

I'm really curious to know if the Ruby would consider this proposal.

-- Simone


On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Marco Ceresa <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> IPAddress [1] is a library to manipulate IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. It
> has been written as a replacement for IPAddr, trying to fix some of
> its bugs, and at the same time extending its functionalities and
> offering a more powerful and flexible interface.
>
> Migrating from IPAddr to IPAddress is very easy, as most of the
> methods have the same name and same behaviour. Moreover, IPAddress is
> around 50% faster than IPAddr, and it's very well documented in each
> of its parts. The code is very clear, easy to read, to maintain and to
> extend, consisting mostly of one line methods.
>
> I've been in touch with the maintainer of IPAddr, Mr. Akinori MUSHA,
> asking him if he would consider IPAddress as a replacement, and he
> suggested me to write to -core.
>
> I think IPAddress is mature enough, so here is my proposal. Let me
> know what you think.
>
> Best regards,
> Marco
>
> [1] https://github.com/bluemonk/ipaddress
>
>