[Haskell-cafe] ANN: nano-hmac 0.2.0

[Steve Lihn]

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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