Best NNTP lib?

[Hal Fulton]

Hello, all.

I think I've heard of at least four NNTP libraries in Ruby --
two in the RAA, and (I think) another two not therein.

I just want to specify a server and a newsgroup (and another
field or two), and then post a message with an optional
attachment.

So what's the way to go?

Hal

 

[Martin Pirker]

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