Re: Haskell Libraries Wishlist

On 2004-10-12, Shae Matijs Erisson wrote:

John Goerzen writes:

Thank you for the numerous helpful suggestions. I will be chasing them down. Many (all?) of them were not listed at http://www.haskell.org/libraries/, which is what I was using. Would it be possible to list more of these on that site?

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E-Mail header, MIME codec Composing or parsing e-mail messages

Peter Simons wrote hsemail, http://cryp.to/hsemail/ Peter Thiemann wrote WASHMail as part of WASH.

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Base64 encode/decode Render binary strings in ASCII Required to do MIME

I've seen several Base64 libs. More details if google doesn't turn up anything.

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MD5, SHA algorithms Generate unique hashes for strings, files

Dominic Steinitz' CryptoLib - http://www.haskell.org/crypto/ReadMe.html

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(n)curses interface Full-screen text interfaces

John Meacham wrote a binding for ginsu, Ian Lynagh wrote a binding that may not be publically released (not sure).

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[ng]dbm interface Persistent hash storage

I think I've heard of one, I'd have to google to be sure.

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mimetypes, mailcap support Discover MIME types of files and appropriate apps to use to handle files

WASHMail has some support for this and MIME encoded emails.

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Maildir, mbox, MH, IMAP client Access e-mail storage systems support

I've written some ugly but mostly functional mbox code as part of curryspondence.

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FTP, NNTP, SMTP client support Connect to appropriate servers

Thomas Hallgren wrote InternetLib, not sure if it requires Fudgets or not.

Richard Braakman wrote a (partial?) FTP implementation as part of his harc source control project.

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IPv6 Support Obvious :-) I'd really like this, but haven't gotten around to trying to make it work in GHC. Shouldn't be too hard though.

Part of my lost list of Haskell wishes: GHC-approved SDL binding (there are several partial implementations) Arrow-based Parsec-alike

-- John Goerzen Author, Foundations of Python Network Programming http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593715