Re: ruby bindings has two gems (I think)

[James Barkley <james.barkley@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info. Are there any plans to extend the functionality of the ruby-libvirt gem beyond just the bindings? For instance, convenience functions, OVF parsing, etc? We have needed this functionality so ended up building a gem called "ovfparse" for fetching and parsing these types of files (code at https://github.com/ruby-ovf/ovfparse).

-jb

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Chris Lalancette <clalance@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 03/10/11 - 07:19:53PM, James Barkley wrote:
> When I look at remote gems I see:
>
> - libvirt (0.2.0), "A ruby client library providing an interface to libvirt
> via FFI"
> - ruby-libvirt (0.3.0), "Provides bindings for libvirt"
>
> I've been using ruby-libvirt, but maybe I should give libvirt a try? Has
> anyone used libvirt (0.2.0) and developed opinions they'd like to share?

I'm biased since I am the maintainer of ruby-libvirt, but I think
you should stick with ruby-libvirt :).  I do more active maintenance of the
bindings than what I saw in the "libvirt" gem, and since I monitor the libvirt
list I keep a very up-to-date with what is going on.  The downside is that
if you are using anything but MRI, the ruby-libvirt bindings won't work.  Since
most people are not, this is not usually an issue, but it is something to
consider.

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Chris Lalancette