From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2009-01-11T12:26:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Libraries that need a new home



On Jan 7, 8:58 pm, Tim Pease <tim.pe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2009, at 4:11 PM, DanielBergerwrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > As many of you know,GuyDecouxpassed away last year. Consequently,
> > there are 5 libraries on the RAA that will need new homes:
>
> >http://raa.ruby-lang.org/search.rhtml?search=decoux
>
> > I talked to Erik Hollensbe about having the ruby-dbi project adopt the
> > pl-ruby library, and I think the bdb libraries, too (for a future dbd-
> > bdb).
>
> > Does that seem reasonable to everyone?
>
> > As for the mmap and bzip2 libraries, we'll need volunteers, preferably
> > someone who uses these libraries in practice. My own feeling is that
> > the CodeForPeople or Seattle.rb projects would be good homes. They're
> > sort of miscellaneous libraries, and I seem to recall that Ara Howard
> > was a heavy user of mmap, though obviously they can speak for
> > themselves.
>
> Ara and I had a conversation about this last month. I've adopted the  
> mmap project, and it will be hosted as a gem under the codeforpeople  
> moniker. Source code is out on Github.
>
> http://github.com/TwP/mmap/tree/master

Excellent, thanks.

> > I realize this may be a bit of a touchy subject, and I certainly mean
> > no disrespect toGuyor to any members of this list. I simply felt
> > this issue should be addressed.
>
> Guyis going to be sorely missed in the community. Thanks, Dan, for  
> taking the effort to keep his work alive.

You're welcome.

The pl-ruby library (0.5.3) is now hosted by the ruby-dbi team on
RubyForge. For now it's just the last .tar.gz file that Guy released.
There will eventually be a gem.

Regards,

Dan