[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: tls, native TLS/SSL protocol implementation

[Michael Snoyman]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Christopher Done
<chrisdone at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 8 October 2010 07:44, C K Kashyap <ckkashyap at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does native mean "Haskell only" - without FFI?
>
> I think "not Haskell" would be piping to a separate non-Haskell
> process or calling by FFI to another language to do the interesting
> work. Thus "native" is not using these for the interesting work. E.g.
> I can call out to zlib with the FFI and call it a Haskell zlib
> library. It's not really a native Haskell implementation, though.

By the way, a native zlib implementation would definitely go on my
wishlist. Any takers? ;)

Michael