On 05/07/07, Bulat Ziganshin
* 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 The need I had for these is no longer current, but sometime I'll try an experiment and see how easy it is, on a relatively clean Windows box with just GHC installed, to grab and use these libraries. (Side note: with Python, I'm used to 3rd party modules being available as Windows installer packages - does the concept of an installable binary for something like MissingH, which I can just install and use, make sense for a compiled language like Haskell? The build, find I'm missing a C library, get it, compile it, fix bugs, try again cycle I used to hit before Python Windows installers became common isn't something I'd like to repeat...) As I mentioned in passing, it may well be that the library issue with Haskell is more of a perception (or maybe organisational) issue than a technical one... Paul.