Most popular libraries not in the HP

[Don Stewart]

duncan.coutts:
> On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 09:07 -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> We can do both with one package once we have the right primitives.

I agree. I hesitate to wait for another year to have binary parsing in
the platform, so perhaps we should aim for the integrated binary package
in the next 3 months.