Re: Binary data parsing and assembly

I renamed it all to binary-data and have pushed that and other changes.

 - Bruce



On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:55 AM, 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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