From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T03:27:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Collecting list of most wanted libraries and apps to port to ruby

PA wrote:
> 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/

mDNS / Rendezvous is at the top of my list.  Although there is a ruby 
package for this, it relies on the C rendezvous stuff compiled as 
libraries -- and it's not clear from the distributions how to do this, etc.

I'd *love* to see a pure-Ruby implementation, or at least an 
implementation that was much easier to install and configure.

For what it's worth, Python has a pure Python implementation of a mDNS / 
Rendezvous library, but it's badly broken.  Right now at work, we're 
days or weeks away from starting serious work on some network tools that 
require rendezvous, there's a heavy push for using the Python 
implementation because it's pure python, and despite its brokenness, it 
has a better chance of working across different platforms and such than 
does the Ruby version.  Of course, I'd love to get the Ruby one working. 
    I'd even devote some time to working on this, but I'm not sure where 
to start.

Ben