Re: Proposed addition of strcodecs(3) library - review requested

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 07:41:46PM +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> On 09/18/10 18:35, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > I think strcodecs(3) provides 3 things:
> >
> > 1.  a way of gathering together existing functionality, which is
> > seldom used, into one general command - asa(1) is a particular
> > favourite of mine in this regard - but also uuencode, uudecode, and
> > rot13 come to mind.  strcodecs(3) provides a way to do rot<N>, BTW
> >
> > 2.  as you note, a wrapper around a lot of libraries, providing a
> > consistent and simple interface, like the wrapper around gzip's
> > compress(3) functions, and the libc digest functions, and
> >
> > 3.  new and useful functionality like base64 and base85 encoding, and
> > character set conversion, soundex/metaphone, etc.
> 
> 4. ease regression testing (:

Yes, that's one I hadn't thought of.

Thanks for the feedback.

Best,
Alistair