From: Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung@...>
Date: 2008-01-10T01:36:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Metalink (XML) library for Ruby?


On 9 Jan 2008, at 16:29, Rene Leonhardt wrote:

> On 6 Jan., 00:22, Anthony Bryan <anthonybr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Would anyone be interested in working on a Metalink library for Ruby?
>> There's already one for PHP & Python (http://code.google.com/p/metalink-library/ 
>> ).
>
> Hello Anthony,
>
> I would like to help porting my library to Ruby.
> That would be a good way to learn it ;)
> But I would need someone to help with the trickier parts at least:
> - reading XML
> - hash libraries (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, maybe ED2K)
> - HTTP requests and responses including headers
> - bin2ascii for creating and parsing BitTorrent
>
> The Python code is a bit more than 2000 lines long and I would port
> most of them.

None of that's terribly difficult, I'd be happy to lend a hand (and I  
wrote metalink support into an app on the mac, so I at least have a  
vague idea of what's going on :-) )

Fred