[libvirt-users] ruby bindings has two gems (I think)

[James Barkley]

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 at redhat.com>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.
>
> --
> Chris Lalancette
>
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