From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2005-01-08T04:06:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Collecting list of most wanted libraries and apps to port to ruby

PA ha scritto:
> 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/
> 

IIRC we have rendezvous implementation floating on rubyforge cherk it 
out.. and don't forget Rinda::Ring