Add binary and/or cereal to the Haskell Platform

[Johan Tibell]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Trevor Elliott <trevor at galois.com> wrote:
> 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?

I think the builder should eventually end up being a thin wrapper
around the new builder we're releasing in the next bytestring release
(based on blaze-builder).