FW: First Attempt at Crypto Library

[Andrew J Bromage]

G'day all.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:12:44AM +0200, Ketil Z. Malde wrote:

> Agreed, this is sensible.  But if you introduce orthogonal categories,
> (e.g. Codec.Binary), you need to ask whether you should have
> 
>         Codec.Binary.Image.Jpeg
> or      Codec.Image.Binary.Jpeg

This case is fairly simple.  The Jpeg codec does not encode/decode
"binaries", it handles abstract "images".  (In fact, it's a strict
subset of "images", namely, images with three 8-bit channels, where
the channels represent RGB space or something else easily converted to
RGB.)

I'm still not convinced that Codec.Image makes sense in isolation from
a representation of "images".  It's hard to see what you'd do with such
a library without some other image handling stuff.

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage