[Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary Endianness

[Neil Davies]

So the answer for persistence is Data.Binary -> ASN.1 converter that
can be used in extrema?

On 11/09/2007, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sep 11, 2007, at 7:01 , Jules Bean wrote:
>
> > The actual format used by Data.Binary is not explicitly described
> > in any standard (although in most cases it's moderately obvious,
> > and anyone can read the code), and it's not formally guaranteed
> > that it will never change in a later version (although the
> > maintainers will no doubt try very hard to ensure it doesn't); nor
> > does it contain any automatic support for version-stamping to
> > ensure backwards compatibility in the face of later unlooked-for
> > format changes.
>
> I will just point out that, while this is one extreme, the other
> extreme is ASN.1.  I think we want to walk the middle path instead....
>
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> brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
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> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH
>
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