Perl2ruby or inline::perl?

Ruby
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I would like to use the exiftool library for exif/iptc/xmp image
metadata
manipulation, but it’s written in Perl. Since it seems somehow wrong and
definitely inefficient, I was wondering if there was any sort of
perl2ruby
convertor, or if there was an inline::perl module that could at least
take
the Perl and compile it to bytecode.

Paul

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On Apr 14, 2009, at 07:32, Paul A. wrote:

I would like to use the exiftool library for exif/iptc/xmp image
metadata manipulation, but it’s written in Perl. Since it seems
somehow wrong and definitely inefficient, I was wondering if there
was any sort of perl2ruby convertor, or if there was an inline::perl
module that could at least take the Perl and compile it to bytecode.

None of these are suitable?

$ gem search -r exif

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

exifr (0.10.8)
extexif (1.0.1)
mini_exiftool (1.0.1)
multi_exiftool (0.0.1)

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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Eric H. wrote:

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

exifr (0.10.8)
extexif (1.0.1)

Both are exif-only. EXIF is the metadata the camera writes. It is
writable/modify-able, but mostly to add gps info, or correct dates.
IPTC and XMP have fields to add much richer metadata: caption,
description, keywords, etc.

mini_exiftool (1.0.1)
multi_exiftool (0.0.1)

Both are interfaces to the Perl based exiftool mentioned above.

Paul

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Paul A. [email protected] wrote:

$ gem search -r exif

[snip]

mini_exiftool (1.0.1)
multi_exiftool (0.0.1)

Both are interfaces to the Perl based exiftool mentioned above.
What do you want to do? I don’t belive that executing Perl bytecode is
much faster than using the command-line interface of exiftool.

Regards,
Jan