Re: Binary data parsing and assembly

The readme says, "This is binary-data, consisting of a domain-specific language for describing binary protocols, which generates readers and writers into a high-level object.”

So call it “binary-reader/writer”.



On Dec 15, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]> wrote:

> For now, this library is still called packetizer, but a repo has been set up here:
> 
>     https://github.com/dylan-lang/binary-storage
> 
> I'll change names around once a name has been determined. (If there's no discussion of this, I'll decide in favor of binary-storage in about 24 hours.)
> 
>  - Bruce
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> As hannes and andreas know, I've taken an interest in the packetizer library from Network Night Vision. It is described in this paper:
> 
>     http://opendylan.org/~hannes/ilc07-final.pdf
> 
> I'm separating it out into a stand-alone library and figured I'd ask if anyone had a good name for it.  Possibly contenders now are:
> 
> binary-data
> binary-data-storage
> binary-storage
> 
> In the long run, I hope to get this cleaned up some, documented, improve the test coverage and perhaps we can distribute it alongside Open Dylan like we do with some other libraries.
> 
> In the short term, I'll be using it for an implementation of the binary protocol for Cassandra, http://cassandra.apache.org/.
> 
> I'm pretty excited about being able to use this library more broadly!
> 
>  - Bruce
> 
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