Haskell Libraries Wishlist

[John Goerzen]

On 2004-10-12, Shae Matijs Erisson <shae at ScannedInAvian.com> wrote:
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> writes:
>

Thank you for the numerous helpful suggestions.  I will be chasing them
down.

Many (all?) of them were not listed at
http://www.haskell.org/libraries/, which is what I was using.  Would it
be possible to list more of these on that site?

>> E-Mail header, MIME codec      Composing or parsing e-mail messages
>
> Peter Simons wrote hsemail, http://cryp.to/hsemail/
> Peter Thiemann wrote WASHMail as part of WASH.
>
>> Base64 encode/decode           Render binary strings in ASCII
>>                                Required to do MIME
>
> I've seen several Base64 libs. More details if google doesn't turn up
> anything.
>
>> MD5, SHA algorithms            Generate unique hashes for strings, files
>
> Dominic Steinitz' CryptoLib - http://www.haskell.org/crypto/ReadMe.html
>
>> (n)curses interface            Full-screen text interfaces
>
> John Meacham wrote a binding for ginsu, Ian Lynagh wrote a binding that may not
> be publically released (not sure).
>
>> [ng]dbm interface              Persistent hash storage
>
> I think I've heard of one, I'd have to google to be sure.
>
>> mimetypes, mailcap support     Discover MIME types of files and
>>                                appropriate apps to use to handle
>>                                files
>
> WASHMail has some support for this and MIME encoded emails.
>
>> Maildir, mbox, MH, IMAP client Access e-mail storage systems
>> support
>
> I've written some ugly but mostly functional mbox code as part of
> curryspondence.
>
>> FTP, NNTP, SMTP client support Connect to appropriate servers
>
> Thomas Hallgren wrote InternetLib, not sure if it requires Fudgets or not.
>
> Richard Braakman wrote a (partial?) FTP implementation as part of his harc
> source control project.
>
>> IPv6 Support                   Obvious :-)
> I'd really like this, but haven't gotten around to trying to make it work in
> GHC. Shouldn't be too hard though.
>
> Part of my lost list of Haskell wishes: 
> GHC-approved SDL binding (there are several partial implementations)
> Arrow-based Parsec-alike


-- 
John Goerzen
Author, Foundations of Python Network Programming
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593715