From: PA <petite.abeille@...>
Date: 2005-01-08T03:30:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Collecting list of most wanted libraries and apps to port to ruby

Hi Lothar,

On Jan 07, 2005, at 19:24, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Hello PA,
>
>
> P> On Jan 07, 2005, at 04:31, Thursday wrote:
>
>>> What are the top 5 libraries you'd like to see ported to Ruby?
>
> P> http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/
>
> No please not. Not this stupid overengineered library that tries to
> merge things in an abstract interface that are too different.

Hmmm... don't take it too literally. What I wanted to hint at is that a 
library to deal with all the trivia of email handling would be quite 
useful. Alter all, who wants to write a MIME parsing library for every 
new project...

> I want forget every minute of my life where i worked with this stuff
> and it was a serious amount - just because it was so slow that
> i always feared to die on a coffeine shock while working with it.

Oh, my... it's not THAT bad :P

Here is another one for you:

http://jmdns.sourceforge.net/

Again, this is not specifically about a particular implementation, but 
rather the functionalities it offers:

http://developer.apple.com/macosx/rendezvous/

Cheers,

PA>