[Haskell-cafe] ANN: nano-hmac 0.2.0

Steve Lihn stevelihn at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 19:34:57 EST 2008


And in perl CPAN world, there are "bundles" that put together related
packages in one big install... Maybe there can be "Cabal bundles".
Just an idea!

On Feb 12, 2008 2:03 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> Ok, I'll leave it up there as a separate package then.  :)
>
> -- Don
>
> hitesh.jasani:
> > Don,
> >
> > It's tempting, but I would really hate to lose nano-md5 as it is
> > today.  I thought your concept was a great idea to inspire people to
> > start small to get a feel for developing Haskell libraries.  The
> > current nano-md5 serves as a really good example.
> >
> > In the Ruby community there are many small libraries that do one,
> > simple focused task.  There are times when this is a virtue over
> > libraries that try to be all encompassing.  It's weird but I would
> > have thought the Haskell community would have more embraced small
> > libraries also since they may be more composable.
> >
> > - Hitesh
> >
> >
>
> > On Feb 11, 2008 4:29 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> > > hitesh.jasani:
> > > > nano-hmac provides bindings to OpenSSL's HMAC interface.  With this release the
> > > > set of hashing functions supported is: MD5, SHA, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384,
> > > > SHA512.
> > > >
> > > > If you're unfamiliar with HMAC's then you may want to check out the second link
> > > > below where I explain a little bit about them in a blog entry.
> > > >
> > > > The hackage pages mentioned that they're not running haddock 2.0, so I don't
> > > > know if the docs will generate.  If not, you can see the docs online at the
> > > > third link below.
> > > >
> > > > * http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/nano-hmac-0.2.0
> > > > * http://www.jasani.org/2008/02/nano-hmac-020-released.html
> > > > * http://docs.jasani.org/nano-hmac/0.2.0/
> > > >
> > > > Any and all comments/suggestions/criticisms/fortune-cookie-proverbs are welcome.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Shall we merge nano-md5 into this lib, and deprecate nano-md5 itself?
> > > Seems like a good time to consolidate, and produce a single openssl
> > > binding.
> > >
> > > -- Don
> > >
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