From: Chris Carter <cdcarter@...>
Date: 2007-11-21T09:26:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Packet : A Pure Ruby Library for Event Driven Network Programming

On Nov 20, 2007 6:09 PM, Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 20, 2007, at 1:14 PM, hemant wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I am pleased to announce "Packet", A pure ruby library for Event
> > Driven Network Programming.
> >
> > Packet is a pure ruby library for writing network applications in
> > Ruby.
> > It follows Evented Model of network programming and implements
> > almost all the
> > features provided by EventMachine.
>
> Did you ever consider working on the EventMachine project so it could
> handle your requirements? While I'm happy to see more event-driven
> programming, I'm puzzled why you re-invented so much of the wheel for
> one or two features that EM didn't have.
>
>
>

I think mainly that this is pure ruby, and event machine is a C++ backend.

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