Good work! The last thing you need to do is to send a note to John Petersen to incorporate it on the Haskell libraries page haskell.org/libraries. That way lots more people will be able to find it. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of | Jeremy Shaw | Sent: 08 November 2004 19:43 | To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org | Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Hal Daume III's NewBinary now ghc6ized, cabalized,debianize, darcsized. | | Hello, | | I am quite interested in having better Binary support in Haskell -- | especially support for reading and writing binary files and protocols | that have fields smaller than 8-bits and non-byte alignment. | | As a first step, I have republished Hal Daume III's NewBinary package | in hopes that it will inspire some forward movement on it. I have made | the following 'improvements': | | ~ ghc6ized | | cd /tmp/NewBinary/ | diff /tmp/Binary.hs /tmp/NewBinary/NewBinary/Binary.hs | 81c81,82 | < import GHC.Handle ( openFileEx, IOModeEx(..) ) | --- | > import GHC.Handle | > import IOExts ( openFileEx, IOModeEx(..) ) | | (hrm, I probably don't need to import GHC.Handle anymore either...) | | ~ cabalized | | To build, you need the Cabal libraries installed. Then do something | like this: | | ghc -package Setup.lhs -o setup | ./setup configure | ./setup build | ./setup install | ./setup register (? maybe not needed ?) | | ~ debianized | | You should be able to build and install it like any other debian | package: | | dpkg-buildpackage && debi | | ~ darcsized | | darcs get http://www.n-heptane.com/nhlab/repos/NewBinary | | I hope I am not stepping on anyone's toes or duplicating efforts. | | Jeremy Shaw. | | ps. The original is available at: | | http://www.isi.edu/~hdaume/haskell/NewBinary/ | -- | | This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the | addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone | the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, | please advise the sender and delete the message. Thank you. | _______________________________________________ | Haskell-Cafe mailing list | Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe