Hi all, A few years ago I found a need to base64 encode a bit of text inside vim and realised that there was no convenient way of doing it. This resulted in dataenc[1] and a pair of tools built on it, omnicodec[2]. The main goals were to make dataenc correct, support many encodings, and easy to maintain. This resulted in very simple (some would say naïve) code, with fairly good test coverage. As some have noticed, this simplicity in algorithm results in rather bad performance on large data. Which is why I've been planning for a replacement for a while now. This replacement is now here, sandi[3]. The goals of sandi are similar to dataenc, correct, many encodings, fairly simple, but also reasonably fast. This means that I personally think dataenc has reached the end of its life and I won't spend any more time on maintaining it. If anyone is interested in taking over maintenance then please announce it on the list. /M [1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dataenc [2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/omnicodec [3]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/sandi -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay