From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-01-23T13:15:18+09:00
Subject: Missing libraries??

I'm starting a new thread to get away from
the other issues in the other one.

Here are some things I think *might* be 
useful and not yet existent.

Disclaimer: In many cases I'm treading 
on ground where I know little or nothing.

1. Secure FTP
2. Secure Telnet
3. SSH (not even really sure what this is??)
4. Is there good CORBA support?
5. Any need for cryptographic stuff?
6. I18N/M17N stuff??
7. Native threads (e.g. pthreads)? (Yes, I
know this is supposed to come with 2.0)
8. Platform-independent audio support?
9. MIDI??
10. Read/write RTF?
11. Read/write Postscript, PDF??
12. Read/write archives? Compression?
13. Natural language processing?
14. X10 device control (home automation)
15. Slink-e support (home automation)
16. Sunrise/sunset by latitude/longitude/date
17. Festival (TTS) interface
18. Sphinx (voice rec) interface
19. What was that thing at RubyConf? Ruby/Snack?
20. PayPal vendor support (IPN, etc.)
21. Advanced data structures??
22. wxRuby (in progress)
23. WebDAV?
24. RSS?
25. Oracle interface??


These things (below) are at least partially
supported by Ruby libraries, but may need 
enhancement: JRuby, RJudy, POP3, IMAP, SMTP,
CORBA, Jabber, etc., etc.

Just some random notes. Release the hounds!

Hal