[DRE-maint] Fwd: pcap and ruby

[Gunnar Wolf]

Paul van Tilburg dijo [Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:13:14PM +0200]:
> Hello all,
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Would you consider replacing (or just adding) currnent libpcap-ruby packet
> with:
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/pcaprub/
> 
> It seems that many newer software are using it, such as:
> http://sylv1.tuxfamily.org/projects/scruby.html
> and:
> http://blog.spoofed.org/2008/03/racket-ruby-raw-packet-fun.html
> 
> Latest version of ruby-pcap is from 2000-08-13 and it seems it's
> not maintained. 
> Downside is, pcaprub is LGPL while ruby-pcap is GPL.

Well, I'm not really sure it is a mature project - Look at its project
page [1]. Look at its SVN commit history [2]. I have not yet touched
the code, and it could be amazing, but this fails to impress me:

0 gwolf at mosca[4]/tmp$ wc -l pcaprub/*
    4 pcaprub/extconf.rb
  459 pcaprub/LICENSE
  360 pcaprub/pcaprub.c
    2 pcaprub/README
   83 pcaprub/test_pcaprub.rb
  908 total

But, of course, if a worthy project depends on it, or if someone
actually wants it... it looks almost trivial to package.

[1] http://pcaprub.rubyforge.org/

[2] http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=2492

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