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

Christopher Done chrisdone at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 8 08:08:29 EDT 2010


On 8 October 2010 13:54, Sittampalam, Ganesh
<ganesh.sittampalam at credit-suisse.com> wrote:
> Vincent Hanquez wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 11:14:01AM +0530, C K Kashyap wrote:
>>> Does native mean "Haskell only" - without FFI?
>>
>> Native means the implementation is in haskell, and the library is not
>> using another implementation (in another language) to do the work:
>> either through FFI as a binding, or as a wrapper to an external
>> program.
>
> What's the motivation for this?
>
> One thing I can see is that it would make things easier to install on
> Windows.

Indeed. Easier to install, easier to hack on (for Haskellers). Haskell
program coverage, debugging, extending your quickcheck tests, etc.


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