From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2007-11-21T10:42:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Packet : A Pure Ruby Library for Event Driven Network Programming

On Nov 21, 2007 5:56 AM, Chris Carter <cdcarter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I would have liked nothing more than having it in EventMachine. But as
you see the biggest differentiator is
ability to have process based workers, so I needed low level access of
sockets. Once started as proof of concept,
it took off on its own, and I didn't see any harm in having a pure
ruby version.


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