Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

2007-07-06 Thread Ketil Malde
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 18:08 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: - Found that on hackage, downloaded and built OK. Lots of scary warnings about happy, greencard etc, not being found during configure, but let's go on. I've complained about these before, although I don't think anyone

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

2007-07-06 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 08:26 +0200, Ketil Malde wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 18:08 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: - Found that on hackage, downloaded and built OK. Lots of scary warnings about happy, greencard etc, not being found during configure, but let's go on. I've complained

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

2007-07-05 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Paul, Thursday, July 5, 2007, 7:00:46 PM, you wrote: * Gzip compress a data stream zlib * Send an email * Parse an ini file The one thing off the top of my head that Python had was Base64, but that's 20 MissingH * Calculate the MD5 checksum of a file crypto -- Best regards,

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

2007-07-05 Thread Paul Moore
On 05/07/07, Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Gzip compress a data stream zlib * Send an email * Parse an ini file The one thing off the top of my head that Python had was Base64, but that's MissingH * Calculate the MD5 checksum of a file crypto Thanks. The need I had for

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

2007-07-05 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi It's not a great experience now, but hopefully things are moving in the right direction. - Found crypto 3.0.3 on hackage. - Tried to build, it depends on NewBinary Cabal-install is intended to remove this problem, so that you can say i want crypto and it gets everything that requires. -

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

2007-07-05 Thread Paul Moore
On 05/07/07, Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The need I had for these is no longer current, but sometime I'll try an experiment and see how easy it is, on a relatively clean Windows box with just GHC installed, to grab and use these libraries. Just for fun I had a go with crypto: - Found

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

2007-07-05 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 17:07 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: On 05/07/07, Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Gzip compress a data stream zlib * Send an email * Parse an ini file The one thing off the top of my head that Python had was Base64, but that's MissingH *

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

2007-07-05 Thread Paul Moore
On 05/07/07, Neil Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - But no simple examples, and the haddoc docs show APIs, but not usage examples! Complain to the author. Yes, that's completely unrelated to library availability issues. I got off the topic, in all my ranting. Sorry. Part of the problem

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

2007-07-05 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 17:39 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: I see you've already responded, and we're in broad agreement. So I won't labour the point. It's an infrastructure issue rather than a technical one, and it *will* improve. What will be interesting is how much the generally lousy Windows

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

2007-07-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 06:08:45PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 17:51 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: - Found that on hackage, downloaded and built OK. Lots of scary warnings about happy, greencard etc, not being found during configure, but let's go on. I've

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

2007-07-04 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Philip, Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 5:50:42 PM, you wrote: This doesn't seem to deal with endianness. Am I missing something? alternative: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library/AltBinary http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library/Streams -- Best regards, Bulat

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Binary serialization, was Re: Abstraction leak

2007-07-04 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Philip, Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 9:41:27 PM, you wrote: I'm thinking of the elimination of the boxing of values drawn out of the input stream where possible, eg if I was writing a stream processor that folded across the values in the input stream, it would (presumably) be more