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
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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