ANNOUNCE: HaNS-2.1.0.0

[Don Stewart]

Yay! The Hackage URL is:

    http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hans

Cheers,
   Don

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Trevor Elliott <trevor at galois.com> wrote:
> Galois, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of HaNS, the Haskell
> Network Stack.  HaNS is a lightweight, pure Haskell network stack that
> can be used for Haskell networking in the context of the HaLVM, or with
> a Linux tap device. Currently, HaNS supports 802.3, IPv4, ARP, DHCP
> (partially), ICMP, UDP, and TCP.
>
>    On Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HaNS
>    Git repo:   http://code.galois.com/cgi-bin/gitweb
>
> The TCP component is a port of Peng Li and Stephan Zdancewic's Haskell
> TCP library, which in turn was translated from Norrish et al's HOL4 TCP
> specification.
>
> What might you use HaNS for? Developing new and interesting networking
> protocols, at any layer of the network stack, or your own variants of
> existing protocols. HaNS allows HaLVM nodes to support networking,
> meaning you can run experimental network services directly on top of the
> HaLVM (without any pesky OS getting in the way). There are probably lots
> of other cool applications of HaNS we haven't though of yet.
>
> HaNS is released under a BSD license, and should be considered
> experimental at this stage.
>
> If you have any questions please contact the HaLVM team at
>
>    halvm-devel at community.galois.com.
>
> -- Trevor Elliott (for the HaLVM team)
>
> P.S. If you're building with the HaLVM, make sure to add -fhalvm to your
> cabal install invocation.
>
>
> = References =
>
> HaLVM:          http://halvm.org
> Haskell TCP:    http://hackage.haskell.org/package/tcp
>
>
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