duncan.coutts: > On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 09:07 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > > marlowsd: > > > On 15/07/2010 23:53, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com > > >> <mailto:d...@galois.com>> wrote: > > >> > > >> Things we might realistically propose to add for 2011.1 > > >> > > >> New capabilities: > > >> * Binary parsing: binary + cereal ? > > >> > > >> > > >> Why both? Their parallel existence and purpose is already confusing, > > >> without blessing the two :-) > > > > > > Right, if there are are two competing libraries and it's not clear which > > > one is best, that's a sign that we shouldn't put either in the platform > > > until the differences are resolved. Fight it out and get back to us > > > when you have an answer :-) > > > > > > > They're complimentary. Sometimes you need parsing of streams, sometimes > > you need synchronous parsing of strict packets. > > We can do both with one package once we have the right primitives.
I agree. I hesitate to wait for another year to have binary parsing in the platform, so perhaps we should aim for the integrated binary package in the next 3 months. _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform