# Ruby-IXP 1.0.2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 19, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ixp-1-0-2/69165 "2006-09-19T03:03:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Suraj_NSKurapati)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ixp-1-0-2/69165/1 "2006-09-19T03:03:29Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 = Version 1.0.2 (2006-09-18) Ruby-IXP is an implementation of the 9P2000 protocol designed for use with Window Manager Improved. It is written in pure Ruby to avoid periodical calling of the wmiir command, thus improving performance. There is another full-blown 9P2000 implementation called Rstyx, but it’s rather complex and slow. Web site: [http://home.gna.org/rubyixp/](http://home.gna.org/rubyixp/) Download: [http://download.gna.org/rubyixp/](http://download.gna.org/rubyixp/) == Summary This release fixes major stability issues and improves performance. == Benchmark This was run on a Pentium-D 2793.213Mhz with Linux 2.6.15-26-386, Ruby 1.8.4, and wmii-3.1. $ ruby -w examples/benchmark.rb Rehearsal --------------------------------------------- ruby\_ixp: 1.550000 0.150000 1.700000 ( 3.598023) wmiir: 0.080000 0.180000 4.240000 ( 6.641997) rstyx: 7.090000 0.390000 7.480000 ( 9.365797) - ----------------------------------- total: 13.420000sec ruby\_ixp: 1.400000 0.140000 1.540000 ( 3.510298) wmiir: 0.100000 0.350000 4.130000 ( 6.182895) rstyx: 4.790000 0.370000 5.160000 ( 7.069832) == Details - IXP::Connection has been completely rewritten to follow a coffee-shop system metaphor. - Support for buffering, in case of dynamically updating files such as “/event”, has been strengthened. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFD0ExmV9O7RYnKMcRAtSoAJ4yOGvdxSqYT4Kg43PXrYJdFTsz6QCfduSb kAqjRnKEZtoQNYcq8SAn2AE= =dkUu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---
**Author:** ![Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Suraj_NSKurapati)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 10:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ixp-1-0-2/69165/2 "2006-09-19T10:46:24Z")
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 02:03, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > = Version 1.0.2 (2006-09-18) > > Ruby-IXP is an implementation of the 9P2000 protocol designed for > use with Window Manager Improved. It is written in pure Ruby to > avoid periodical calling of the wmiir command, thus improving > performance. There is another full-blown 9P2000 implementation > called Rstyx, but it’s rather complex and slow. I really must try this out, thanks for this. Alex ---
**Author:** ![Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Suraj_NSKurapati)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 11:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ixp-1-0-2/69165/3 "2006-09-19T11:46:31Z")
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:03:23AM +0900, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > = Version 1.0.2 (2006-09-18) > […] > == Summary > > This release fixes major stability issues and improves performance. This is great news. I’ve recently (last Sat., just before you started to release on a nearly daily basis 😉 hacked ruby-wmii to use Ruby-IXP, and was experiencing some stability problems: it was reporting lots of unexpected packets and wmiiwm would lock once a day in a write(2) call in ixp\_send\_message. I’ll tell you if I can reproduce it again with 1.0.2 (but you might have just fixed it :-). Thanks, ---
**Author:** ![Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Suraj_NSKurapati)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ixp-1-0-2/69165/4 "2006-09-19T13:00:37Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mauricio F. wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:03:23AM +0900, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > > > = Version 1.0.2 (2006-09-18) > > […] > > == Summary > > > > This release fixes major stability issues and improves performance. > > This is great news. I’ve recently (last Sat., just before you started to > release on a nearly daily basis 😉 hacked ruby-wmii to use Ruby-IXP, and was > experiencing some stability problems: 🙂 > it was reporting lots of unexpected packets Yeah, this was due to lack of buffering. Consequently, one couldn’t always process data read from /event without data loss. > and wmiiwm would lock once a day in a write(2) call in > ixp\_send\_message. Indeed. However, Ruby-IXP 1.0.2 has its own problems (thread deadlock) that distracts from the real cause of the wmii lock-up. But with Ruby-IXP 1.0.3, I think I have narrowed down the problem to wmii’s libixp itself. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFD8gwmV9O7RYnKMcRAuiEAKCW7V4HpjNaVnk0tI+FXqx0MsmQ+wCgjauS 4BQfIC2sSCtU/YfMvI/WSK8= =TykV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---
**Author:** ![Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Suraj_NSKurapati)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ixp-1-0-2/69165/5 "2006-09-19T14:10:43Z")
Mauricio F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > This is great news. I’ve recently (last Sat., just before you started to > release on a nearly daily basis 😉 hacked ruby-wmii to use Ruby-IXP, This is great news by itself. I’ve seen you started a ruby-ixp branch in your repository. Are there any special prerequisites for it? Especially, do I need some Suraj’s wmii-3.1? And which version of ruby-ixp should be used – the version you’re shipping or the latest upstream? And, some more: will my wmiirc-config.rb still work? And what about my own plugins? TIA, olli ---
**Author:** ![Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Suraj_NSKurapati)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ixp-1-0-2/69165/6 "2006-09-19T17:36:20Z")
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:10:14PM +0900, Oliver Heins wrote: > Mauricio F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > > > This is great news. I’ve recently (last Sat., just before you started to > > release on a nearly daily basis 😉 hacked ruby-wmii to use Ruby-IXP, > > This is great news by itself. I’ve seen you started a ruby-ixp branch > in your repository. Are there any special prerequisites for it? > Especially, do I need some Suraj’s wmii-3.1? I’m using it with the stock wmii-3.1. > And which version of ruby-ixp should be used – the version you’re shipping > or the latest upstream? I simply included Ruby-IXP in ruby-wmii, and it will get installed under $HOME/.wmii-3/lib when you run ruby-wmii’s install.rb, so you need not care about installing the correct version manually. I’ll svn update the bundled Ruby-IXP periodically, making sure that everything work OK. I just upgraded to 1.0.3 from 0.1, and the only change I had to do was one s/read\_all/read/. > And, some more: will my wmiirc-config.rb still work? Yes. > And what about my own plugins? They’ll also work unmodified. In general, everything works without any changes. Only plugins that parsed the output from wmiir read called on a dir would be affected, but I doubt anybody (but me, in the temporary-selection plugin 🙂 did that since it was ugly anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Suraj\_NSKurapati](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Suraj_NSKurapati)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ixp-1-0-2/69165/7 "2006-09-19T19:50:45Z")
Mauricio F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > > Especially, do I need some Suraj’s wmii-3.1? > > I’m using it with the stock wmii-3.1. > > > And which version of ruby-ixp should be used – the version you’re shipping > > or the latest upstream? […] > In general, everything works without any changes. Only plugins that parsed > the output from wmiir read called on a dir would be affected, but I doubt > anybody (but me, in the temporary-selection plugin 🙂 did that since it was > ugly anyway. You guys made my day 🙂 I just tried it out, and it seems to work like a charm.[1] I used to run in some annoying delays when using wmii, and I hope that this now ceases. However, I noticed that you have to change your install-script. It still tries to copy files from ruby-ixp-0.1. Mauricio and Sergej, I’d like to thank you both for your great work. olli P. S.: Is it possible to check out your darcs-repository in another way than by webbrowser? By now, I have to copy each file seperately, which is okay if I only copy wmiirc and standard-plugins, but somewhat ugly for ruby-ixp. Footnotes: [1] I’m using it just for a few minutes – my first action is writing this post – but I did not run in any nuisance yet 😉 It feels great and fast.