From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-10-30T23:23:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] DNS library released

On Oct 30, 2006, at 6:44 AM, Daniel Berger wrote:

> alexd@nominet.org.uk wrote:
>> Hello -
>> For those who may be interested, I have made the first release of  
>> my port of perl's Net::DNS library to Ruby. The project is called  
>> pnet-dns, and can be found here :
>> http://rubyforge.org/projects/pnet-dns/
>>
>> This project is a direct port from the perl, warts and all. Any  
>> perl code using the library can be ported quickly and easily to  
>> Ruby. All the perl tests have been ported and run successfully  
>> (from perl Net::DNS version 0.57).
>>
> While I appreciate the effort, I'm curious why you didn't join  
> Marco Ceresa's project instead of creating your own project.  I  
> also wonder if creating yet another DNS library (dnsruby) is really  
> a good idea (too many choices).  Would a dnsruby really any better  
> *in practice*?  Why not just refactor pnet-dns to incorporate the  
> best of dnsjava?

I'm curious how all of these options differ from the standard resolv  
library?

James Edward Gray II