Re: ANN: network-alt 0.3 and hsgnutls 0.2.1

5 Nov 2005


      In article <20051105110743.GA22208@yui.aoinet>,
 Einar Karttunen  wrote:
...
network-alt 0.3 featuring:
* New improved build system
* Recvfrom and sendto fixes
* Windows support
Network-Alt is an alternative networking library for Haskell
supporting a nicer API, better performance and IPv6 support.
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ekarttun/network-alt
It's quite low-level, isn't it? I wonder if it would be worth doing 
something along these lines:

newtype IPv4Address = IPv4Address Word32

newtype IPv6Address = IPv6Address Word128

type PortNumber = Word16

data InternetService addr  = MkInternetService {
    localAddress :: addr,
    sendUDP :: UDPOptions -> addr -> PortNumber -> [Word8] -> IO (),
    -- etc.
}

getIPv4Services :: IO [InternetService IPv4Address]
getIPv6Services :: IO [InternetService IPv6Address]

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