Note wanted libraries

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

Things that standard libraries might want

collections (see Containers)
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
networking
- HTTP
  - client
    - rust-http-client (external)
  - server
    - rwebserve (external)
URI/URL
UUID (external)
GUID
date and time
- rust_datetime (external)
math
- lmath (external)
- rusty-math (external)
random
compression (external)
libicu
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
serialization/encoding
base64
CSV (external)
json
protobuf
thrift
Cap'n Proto (external)
tnetstring (external)
xml
file formats
zip file format
tar file format
crypto (external)
concurrency
task management, actor, OTP, Bikeshed mapreduce, pools
low-level OS services
Simple search on a filesystem (eg Ruby's glob)
unit testing
FFI, ctypes
dlopen, os proceses
standard predicates
text, numeric, sorted
error-trapping wrappers, in-place task?
Consistent error handling
quotas, accounting
reflection

DB API (sql, nosql)
- postgres
- mongodb (external)
- redis (external)
- sqlite (external)
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?
GUI
Cocoa (external)

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