From: David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org>
To: William Chesters <williamc@paneris.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: About ASN.1 and network encoding (was: Re: [Caml-list] extending a type with Marshal)
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:45:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u16e2qbe.fsf_-_@linux-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16265.6260.517524.854828@beertje.william.bogus> (William Chesters's message of "Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:01:40 +0100")
Hello,
William Chesters <williamc@paneris.org> writes:
> In summary my feeling is that unless ASN.1 is mandated for a
> certiain application it's best avoided because it creates problems
> of complexity and over-engineering without actually offering
> very much.
As a side note, for our own project which needs a client/server encoding
convention, I have decided to use XDR. It has some nice properties of
ASN.1: standardized (see corresponding IETF RFC); declarative message
description; automatic generation of encoder/decoder from/to OCaml data
structures. All of that without ASN.1's weight.
For OCaml, Gerd Stolpman has written a very nice XDR generator in his
RPC package.
Yours,
david
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-08 21:22 [Caml-list] extending a type with Marshal Ker Lutyn
2003-10-08 21:38 ` Richard Jones
2003-10-08 21:54 ` Peter Jolly
2003-10-10 8:37 ` skaller
2003-10-10 9:19 ` Christian Rinderknecht
2003-10-10 10:38 ` skaller
2003-10-10 17:19 ` Martin Berger
2003-10-12 9:01 ` William Chesters
2003-10-12 9:06 ` William Chesters
2003-10-12 19:45 ` David MENTRE [this message]
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