Most popular libraries not in the HP

[Don Stewart]

marlowsd:
> On 15/07/2010 23:53, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com
>> <mailto:dons at galois.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Things we might realistically propose to add for 2011.1
>>
>>         New capabilities:
>>             * Binary parsing: binary + cereal ?
>>
>>
>> Why both? Their parallel existence and purpose is already confusing,
>> without blessing the two :-)
>
> Right, if there are are two competing libraries and it's not clear which  
> one is best, that's a sign that we shouldn't put either in the platform  
> until the differences are resolved.  Fight it out and get back to us  
> when you have an answer :-)
>

They're complimentary. Sometimes you need parsing of streams, sometimes
you need synchronous parsing of strict packets.

-- Don