Ruby Weekly News: 11/04/2002
A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
this week by Pat Eyler.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Sys/Host 0.3.0
Daniel Berger has released a new version of Sys/Host.
Text::Format 0.52.2
Austin Ziegler has released a minor update to Text::Format, his
announcement was the springboard for a discussion of
versioning.
MIME::Types 1.004
Austin also updated MIME::Types.
RTidy/CityDesk
Austin Ziegler announced Rtidy/Citydesk, the app for which
Text::Format and MIME::Types were written, it’s a helper app
for the commercial CityDesk product.
MUES 0.02
The second release of MUES – the Multi-User Environment
Server. It is a multi-threaded, event-driven internet game
environment server written in Ruby and C.
rpkg (test release)
Massimiliano Mirra has released a new test version of rpkg, one
of the proposed ruby distribution systems.
MiniRubyWiki
Phlip has released a 400 line mini wiki which includes its own
webserver.
DbTalk 0.71
Dalibor Sramek announced the lated release of his DbTalk
project.
INTERESTING THREADS
A good link to read while we discuss RAA.succ
Simon Cozens wrote an article about module namespaces which was
referred to on the mailing lis. A nice thread ensued, with
Simon participating.
Why the lucky stiff brough up blogging RubyConf to help
disseminate the information that came out of it.
[rubyconf] want to meet Microsoft .NET guy?
matz asked if anyone was interested in going to meet some
microsoft people with him. It seems that there were 
Thoughts on Ruby
Enric Lafont started a loong and interesting thread about the
similarities between Ruby and Samlltalk and how Ruby might be
improved by being more Smalltalk like.