Add binary and/or cereal to the Haskell Platform

[Trevor Elliott]

This was the motivation for the initial work on cereal.  I'd be happy 
to see cereal make it into the HP, and I do believe that it provides a 
different feature set than binary, but I worry that it's reaching 
feature parity with attoparsec.  I'm not sure what to do in the long 
run for this, as the two are used in fairly different ways.  Maybe 
cereal could eventually become some sort of presentation of attoparsec 
and one of the builder packages?

--trevor

On Wed 22 Aug 2012 10:33:17 AM PDT, Johan Tibell wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> My current thinking is that perhaps it's better to leave both out.
>>
>>
>> For me, a disincentive to accepting binary is that it doesn't provide a way
>> for a Get to fail. I'd be more in favour of cereal for that reason.
>
> I switched my latest in progress package to cereal for this reason,
> and because I needed to incrementally supply data while parsing.
>
> -- Johan
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