From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-01-08T01:06:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Collecting list of most wanted libraries and apps to port to ruby

A good place to start would be to look at the top downloads from CPAN
(that's the Perl archive for those that don't know) and see what we're
missing.  You can find the "Phalanx 100" at
http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/distros.html.

- From the Top 10:

It looks like Ruby is mostly covered here.  The only thing I'm not sure
about is the "MailTools".  Everything else is core or has 3rd party
equivalents.

- From the Biggies:

The Oracle driver needs serious work.  If there's one man I could
recruit into the Ruby community from Perl it would be Tim Bunce.

We need a recursive descent parser.  Do we have one?

I'm not sure about a couple of these, such as HTML::Tagset,
IO::Socket::SSL, or Net_SSLeay.

The rest look like they're core or covered by 3rd party packages,
except SpamAssassin (which is an application, not a module, afaik).

As for the rest, take a look, and see if there's anything that jumps
out that Ruby doesn't have that folks might think it useful.
Regards,

Dan