From: tcovert <tcovert@...>
Date: 2003-01-26T11:32:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Missing libraries??

Something I've been looking for an found only aborted attempts. Ruby 
BEEP. And especially, an XMLRPC/SOAP profile for it.
I've actually started looking at doing it myself, either trying to wrap 
the roadrunner-c library using SWIG or doing a native implementation. 
However, both of these have me a bit stumped. With the SWIG 
implementation, I'm wondering how much of the glib-2.0 library I'll have 
  to wrap, or if I'll just need to make some minor conversions of things 
like GBool and such.
As for the native implementation, I'm not sure how to do things like 
send a 32bit int over the wire, without actually writing the library in 
c and then wrapping it. My only thoughts are to use just a Fixnum and 
then mask it off before sending it.

If someone were willing to tutor me a bit on this, I'd be willing to 
take a shot at this.


Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> 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
> 
>