From: Jan Friedrich <janfri.rubyforge@...>
Date: 2009-04-20T21:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: perl2ruby or inline::perl?

Paul Archer <paul@paularcher.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Eric Hodel wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 14, 2009, at 07:32, Paul Archer wrote:
>>> I would like to use the exiftool library for exif/iptc/xmp image
>>> metadata manipulation, but it's written in Perl. Since it seems
>>> somehow wrong and definitely inefficient, I was wondering if there was
>>> any sort of perl2ruby convertor, or if there was an inline::perl
>>> module that could at least take the Perl and compile it to bytecode.
>>
>> None of these are suitable?
>>
>> $ gem search -r exif
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> mini_exiftool (1.0.1)
>> multi_exiftool (0.0.1)
>>
> Both are interfaces to the Perl based exiftool mentioned above.
What do you want to do? I don't belive that executing Perl bytecode is 
*much* faster than using the command-line interface of exiftool.

Regards,
Jan