Hopefully this bundle would be a module that re-exports all the submodules packages. I'm kind of annoyed by some of my code that imports ten different modules for one function from each. So in this case: import nanoCrypto (md5, sha, hmac) where nanoCrypto is a bundle (just another hackage package, really) that depends on nano-{md5,sha,hmac} and exports. Sound good? Or perhaps this is already how things work in CPAN and I am just stating what everyone already knows. Thomas On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 19:34 -0500, Steve Lihn wrote:

And in perl CPAN world, there are "bundles" that put together related packages in one big install... Maybe there can be "Cabal bundles". Just an idea!

On Feb 12, 2008 2:03 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

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Ok, I'll leave it up there as a separate package then. :)

-- Don

hitesh.jasani:

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Don,

It's tempting, but I would really hate to lose nano-md5 as it is today. I thought your concept was a great idea to inspire people to start small to get a feel for developing Haskell libraries. The current nano-md5 serves as a really good example.

In the Ruby community there are many small libraries that do one, simple focused task. There are times when this is a virtue over libraries that try to be all encompassing. It's weird but I would have thought the Haskell community would have more embraced small libraries also since they may be more composable.

- Hitesh

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On Feb 11, 2008 4:29 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

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hitesh.jasani:

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nano-hmac provides bindings to OpenSSL's HMAC interface. With this release the set of hashing functions supported is: MD5, SHA, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512.

If you're unfamiliar with HMAC's then you may want to check out the second link below where I explain a little bit about them in a blog entry.

The hackage pages mentioned that they're not running haddock 2.0, so I don't know if the docs will generate. If not, you can see the docs online at the third link below.

* http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/nano-hmac-0.2.0 * http://www.jasani.org/2008/02/nano-hmac-020-released.html * http://docs.jasani.org/nano-hmac/0.2.0/

Any and all comments/suggestions/criticisms/fortune-cookie-proverbs are welcome.

Shall we merge nano-md5 into this lib, and deprecate nano-md5 itself? Seems like a good time to consolidate, and produce a single openssl binding.

-- Don

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