Note wanted libraries

Notes taken at rust work week, 2011/06/23

Things that standard libraries might want

• collections (see Containers)
• compression (external)
• zip file format
• tar file format
• concurrency
• task management, actor, OTP, Bikeshed mapreduce, pools
• crypto
• date and time
  • rust_datetime (external)
• encoding
• base64
• CSV (external)
• json
• protobuf
• thrift
• Cap'n Proto (external)
• tnetstring (external)
• xml
• IO
• AIO, SIO, stdio
• filesystem
• path manipulation
• <> or fileinput
• timers
• string manipulation
• slicing w/o copy, stringref
• regexp (external)
• ropes
• simple tokenizer
• Localizability
• one aspect of L10n is to map a key to a text, based on the current locale (eg Java's ResourceBundle or GNU gettext)
• another aspect is to format a string based on the current locale (eg Java's MessageFormat)
• See issue #4630
• math
  • lmath (external)
  • rusty-math (external)
• networking
  • HTTP
    • client
      • rust-http-client (external)
    • server
      • rusthttpserver (external)
      • rwebserve (external)
• URI/URL
• UUID
• GUID
• random
• Unicode
• Convertions between text encodings. Ideally, with a customizable way of handling conversion errors.
• Unicode normalization (NFD, NFC, NFKD, NFKC)
• Collator (locale sensitive string comparison), with a configurable degree of strictness
• low-level OS services
• Simple search on a filesystem (eg Ruby's glob)
• unit testing
• FFI, ctypes
• dlopen, os processes
• standard predicates
• text, numeric, sorted
• error-trapping wrappers, in-place task?
• Consistent error handling
• reflection

Things that do not belong in std

• Datbase access (sql, nosql)
  • mongodb (external)
  • postgres (external)
  • redis (external)
  • sqlite (external)
• GUI
• Cocoa (external)
• quotas, accounting
• ZeroMQ (external)
• How will libs like this be integrated with regular nonblocking io?
• ZeroMQ sockets need to be used from a fixed thread, can we do this in rust?

Missing language features

• big
• any
• claim
• note