[Haskell-cafe] Re: Cleaner networking API - network-fancy

[Bardur Arantsson]

Taru Karttunen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> network-fancy offers a cleaner API to networking facilities in
> Haskell. It supports high-level operations on tcp, udp and unix
> sockets. 
> 
> I would like some feedback on the API
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/network-fancy/0.1.4/doc/html/Network-Fancy.html
> 
> In particular:
> * Does the type of the server function in dgramServer make sense?
>   or would (packet -> Address -> (packet -> IO ()) -> IO ()) be
>   better?
> * Does the StringLike class make sense?
> * Any other suggestions?
> 
> - Taru Karttunen

One thing that seems to be missing (and also seems to be missing from 
the GHC standard libraries AFAICT) is listening for multicast UDP. This 
requires some extra socket gymnastics to handle group membership. The 
details can be found in the network-multicast package.

Cheers,

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