From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-06-07T03:52:48+09:00
Subject: Re: IPAddress: new IP manipulation library

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 07:03:55PM +0900, bluemonk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've released IPAddress 0.5.0, first release to be public available.
> 
> http://github.com/bluemonk/ipaddress
> 
> IPAddress is an IPv4 and IPv6 addresses manipulation library, designed
> to be easy to use. It is probably the most complete and powerful IP
> manipulation library available today.
> 
> Some key features:
> 
> * support for IPv4, IPv6 and IPv4-IPv6 mapped addresses;
> * easy handling of networks, broadcasts, prefixes;
> * classless and classful (legacy) implementation;
> * full set of conversion methods (bit strings, hex, unsigned
> integers);
> * network design features: subnetting, summarization, supernetting;
> * comprehensive documentation;
> 
> IPAddress is already available as a gem on rubygems.org:
> 
> http://rubygems.org/gems/ipaddress
> 
> Migration from IPAddr should be seamlessly and pretty straightforward.
> We'll soon write a tutorial on how to perform such migration.
> 

Agreed, this is a very nice addition, thank you.

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org