On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Don Stewart
Following Simon M's advice, I look over the typical "batteries" categories, using Python as input:
http://docs.python.org/library/index.html
The following things were missing from the current Platform. There are many. How would you identify the top, say, 5 libs to add?
-- Don
* String support o binary formatting [binary] — lazy binary parsing/serialising o pcre regexes [pcre-light] [regex-pcre] — what’s our best regex lib? o unicode text [text] [text-icu] — packed, unicode text o codecs/encodings — encodings? * Data types o higher dimensional arrays [hmatrix] o bloomfilter — bloomfilters o bytestring-tries — IntMap for ByteStrings o dlist — difference lists o numbers — expanded number types * text o attoparsec (simple, bytestring parsing) o polyparse o csv parsing o pandoc — markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, Docbook, OpenDocument, ODT, RTF, MediaWiki, groff * math and numerics o blas — BLAS o cmath — C math functions o dimensional — physical dimensions o fftw o mersenne-random — fast randoms * persistance o anydbm? o sqlite3 o hdbc * compression o bzip2 o zip o tar * file formats o csv o config parser * crypto o hmac, md5, sha, hashing * systems o getopt o logging o termio o editline o mmap * Internet o network-bytestring o ssl o json o feed (rss, atom) o mime o base64 et al o uuencode o cgi o fastcgi o urls o ftp, http, imap, smtp clients o uuid o url parsing o http server o xml-rpc * Multimedia o colour * Internationalization o gettext o locale o i18n * GUIs o gtk2hs * Development o hscolour _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries
I would also highly support adding the excellent split library, supporting splitting strings. Split is one of the most-asked for functions in Haskell, and even though it's often easy to use a larger parsing library, the split functions can be very useful, especially for dealing with non-string types. Alex Alex