From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2002-09-06T01:21:22+09:00
Subject: Re: suggestions to the Ruby community

W Kent Starr wrote:

>CPAN is a wonderful thing. -If- there exists a module to solve a given
>problem it is relatively easy to find and, for someone with a basic
>understanding of perl, easy to adapt. If one doesn't exist, someone
>proficient in perl can create one.
>
>Increasingly, the Ruby community is developing quite an extensive
>collection of libraries, as well. Unfortunately, it is not (yet) as easy
>to find what you need as it is with CPAN. I expect this will be
>addressed and corrected soon and will be one less barrier toward the
>adoption of Ruby by a larger number of programmers.
>

As a for instance today we needed a RTF parse. There it was on CPAN.

We don't have one on RAA that I can find.

Now I have the RTF specs maybe I should go ahead and write a Ruby version.
What to we want RTF -> HTML / TEXT / XHTML / XML?