Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01763] libwww wrapper"
    on 00/03/06, mengx / nielsenmedia.com <mengx / nielsenmedia.com> writes:
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|I noticed that Ruby CVS included some http related modules. 
|I wonder if a wrapper for W3's libwww package (http://www.w3.org/Library/)
|has ever been considered to be a viable approach to make available
|a relatively complete Internet package for Ruby in a short time. A high
|performance and complete Internet package could accelerate the
|acceptance of Ruby. (Numeric Python is one of the reasons many large
|institutions adopted Python, which, at first thought, was impossible
|for demanding tasks)
|A side-benefit of it would be that it is well documented, which would
|save Ruby developers plenty of time.

Anybody volunteer?  I'm grad to help.

							matz.