Vpim talk - Jun 2006 - question / feature request

Sorry to be "that new guy who has a comment on everything", but...

It appears that for vCard properties with can have URI values, the  
vpim library will use the open-uri Uri class and try to connect and  
retrieve the resource. If the resource doesn''t exist (esp. if the  
host doesn''t exist), the library fails with an uncaught exception:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `initialize'': Connection  
refused - connect(2) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `connect''
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in `timeout''
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout''
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `connect''
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:555:in `do_start''
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:544:in `start''
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:245:in `open_http''
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:629:in `buffer_open''
          ... 7 levels...

Two questions:

1. Is there a way to turn this off and do an "offline mode"? I really
only care about the URL, not the resource.

2. Is there a public repository for the code?

Thanks,

ryan

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:03:24AM -0700, Ryan King
wrote:
> It appears that for vCard properties with can have URI values, the  
> vpim library will use the open-uri Uri class and try to connect and  
> retrieve the resource. If the resource doesn''t exist (esp. if the
> host doesn''t exist), the library fails with an uncaught exception:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `initialize'':
Connection
> refused - connect(2) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `connect''
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in `timeout''
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout''
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `connect''
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:555:in
`do_start''
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:544:in `start''
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:245:in
`open_http''
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:629:in
`buffer_open''
>           ... 7 levels...
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 1. Is there a way to turn this off and do an "offline mode"? I
really
> only care about the URL, not the resource.
Yes, modify Vcard to correctly use Vpim::Attachment::Uri (send me the
patches) and then use the Uri#uri method:

http://vpim.rubyforge.org/classes/Vpim/Attachment/Uri.html
> 2. Is there a public repository for the code?
No. rubyforge had no svn support for the first years of development, and
I have tired of cvs.

When I get enough patches from somebody that integrating the patches
locally becomes more painful than moving the code to rubyforge (assuming
it has svn now, I think it does) and giving them commit access, I will
move the code.

Btw, if you are hoping my local repository is more cutting-edge but
basically useful, as is common on projects whose maintainers are
actively working on it, you would be dissappointed.  vpim is in pieces
here, and I haven''t the time to put it back together.

Sam