Most popular libraries not in the HP

[Simon Marlow]

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 :-)

>             * Unicode:        text
>
> Abstain :-)  I will observe that it needs a tiny bit more API
> stabilisation, but that's almost done.

+1

>             * Vectors:        vector
>
> Definitely want.

+1

Cheers,
	Simon