From: Anthony Bryan <anthonybryan@...>
Date: 2008-01-10T05:56:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Metalink (XML) library for Ruby?

On Jan 9, 2008 11:29 AM, Rene Leonhardt <rene.leonhardt@googlemail.com> 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.
>
> Anyone interested?

Rene, that would be great if you & Fred could collaborate.

I take it you've seen Fred's reply, he worked on Speed Download (a
cool and absolutely gorgeous download manager) from
http://www.yazsoft.com/

small world, didn't expect to run into both you guys here :)

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