From: Martin Pirker <crf@...>
Date: 2003-09-11T03:29:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Best NNTP lib?

Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> I think I've heard of at least four NNTP libraries in Ruby --
> two in the RAA, and (I think) another two not therein.

The lib by nazgul in RAA contains several bugs:
- sock_disconnect never called (gives a nice out of file
  descriptors after ~500 connections in Linux...)
- splitting in article modifies article (AFAIR "empty" lines)
- . at beginning of body text line not handled correctly
- newnews doesn't work with 4 digit year server
- CR+LF vs. LF handling not consistent in all functions
- listgroup misses call parameter forwarding(?)
- sock_readline: select/timeout not pretty
- ...

IMHO


Either a line by line audit or a rewrite from scratch is needed -
I wanted to do the last option for months but never got around
doing it...


Martin