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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: [ANN] Non-standard library project
From:       "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward () noaa ! gov>
Date:       2004-08-10 15:51:46
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.60.0408100942200.5147 () harp ! ngdc ! noaa ! gov
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, 12:41:23 AM, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
>>> For those who are interested, I'll be creating a "rough" directory in
>>> the CVS soon (no promises as to when :) containing the following code:
>>> - an Enum module (by Tim Hunter, think C's enum keyword)
>>> - an IO mixin for dealing with binary data (Michael Neumann's recent
>>>   ruby-talk contribution)
>>> - a command-line command parser, as opposed to option parser (ripped
>>>   from RubyGems, works nicely with optparse)
>>>
>>> That should give some idea of the nature of the project.
>>>
>>> Gavin
>
>> what kinds of things are you still looking for gavin?
>
> Well, I anticipate that eventually the project will contain around 30
> libraries.  At the moment there are about 5 documented ideas on the
> Wiki.  So I don't have a shopping list, rather an open ear for
> suggestions.
>
> That said, the things I'm looking for are code people have written
> where they think it might have some use outside their project but they
> can't be bothered generalising and productising it.  That, and ADTs,
> OO patterns, and other things of general interest.
>
> Preferably pure Ruby, unless and until a simply irresistable C-based
> contribution comes along.
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin

here are a couple i have

general:

   http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/dirstack/

oo patterns:

   http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/multiton/

cheers.

-a
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