Laurent Sansonetti
11/26/2003 9:56:00 AM
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 01:02, Tim Hunter wrote:
> I'm thinking about doing a binding for libgphoto2, the library behind
> gphoto2 (www.gphoto.org).
>
This is a good idea.
> First, is there already a project like this? I've searched RAA and
> RubyForge and found nothing. If you know of such a project, please let me
> know.
>
AFAIK you're the first one ;-)
> Second, is this something that would be useful? The gphoto2 application is
> already a good CLI to libgphoto2, and gtkam is a GTK2 GUI for the library,
> so the two most obvious uses are already satisfied.
>
Well, libgphoto2 seems to be an interesting library, and it would be
really nice to have a Ruby access to it.
Unfortunately libgphoto2 doesn't seem to be based on GLib (yet), so you
won't be able to use Ruby/GLib facilities to implement the binding.
Do not hesitate to ask questions if you have problems!
Cheers,
--
Laurent