From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-12-01T00:20:36+09:00
Subject: Re: cidr.rb: port of Perl's Net::CIDR v0.11 available

Jos Backus wrote:
>     Hi Dave,
>
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 05:35:13PM +0900, Dave Burt wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>     
>>> As an aside: anyone have a port of Net::Ping they are willing to share? I'm
>>> trying to convert some code (and colleagues!) to Ruby and am running into the
>>> "missing libraries" issue...
>>>       
>> Check the RAA (and Rubyforge).
>>
>> For ping, there is 'ping' in the standard library, and 'net/ping' on the
>> RAA ('gem install net-ping').
>>     
>
> I'm aware of those but they lack some features the Perl version has. Notably
> ICMP support and returning timing information.
>   
Well, there is PingExternal for ICMP support. ;)

Seriously, though, both would be good additions.
> It would also be nice for there to be a single Net::Ping class, just like the
> Perl version provides, wrapping/hiding the specialized classes. That seems
> like an easy addition.
>   
The API was modelled after the current ping.rb in the standard library 
to try to keep things consistant and more portable for anyone switching 
from ping.rb to my net-ping module.  A factory pattern should be doable 
if that's what folks want.  In practice, however, I don't see it as a 
major issue, and probably not worth the API breakage.

Regards,

Dan