Re: Haksell Platform proposal: Add JuicyPixels

2013-01-28 Thread Thomas DuBuisson
> no reverse dependencies on Hackage (besides JuicyPixels-repa) This isn't true. Free-game is a revdep (of jp-repa, but that doesn't make jp any less depended on). > benchmarks would be nice -- how competitive is it performance-wise to e.g. > imagemagick or imlib? Just answered, thankfully. Do

Re: Growing Haskell Platform

2012-12-06 Thread Thomas DuBuisson
Crypto is rather well addressed by Vincent's packages (crypto{cipher,hash}). Please don't use Crypto as it's not really for production use. In some cases we could do with high performance bindings to C instead of pure Haskell, and I'm willing to put in a little effort to see that happen. The sta

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

2010-07-15 Thread Thomas DuBuisson
>        * Binary parsing: binary + cereal ? >        * Vectors:        vector I strongly support adding these to HP. > * gtk2hs And I support gtk2hs. I've had odd issues with wxHaskell and have observed me/others having trouble finding good examples or help. >        * Hashing:        pureMD