Reading, writing and manipulating ".tar" archive files.

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• JuicyPixels

  9.7 1.9 tar VS JuicyPixels

  Picture loading/serialization (in png, jpeg, bitmap, gif, tga, tiff and radiance)

• binary-serialise-cbor

  9.7 3.3 tar VS binary-serialise-cbor

  Yet Another Binary Serialisation Library (compatibility shim)

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• xlsx

  9.5 4.0 tar VS xlsx

  Simple and incomplete Excel file parser/writer

• codec-beam

  9.4 tar VS codec-beam

  Erlang VM byte code assembler

• RSA

  9.2 0.0 tar VS RSA

  Implementation of RSA, using the padding schemes of PKCS#1 v2.1.

• candid

  9.2 8.2 tar VS candid

  Candid integration

• mime

  9.2 0.0 tar VS mime

  Working with MIME types.

• pure-zlib

  9.2 0.0 tar VS pure-zlib

  A Haskell-only implementation of zlib / DEFLATE

• raaz

  9.1 8.3 tar VS raaz

  The raaz cryptographic library.

• zip

  9.0 4.6 tar VS zip

  Operations on zip archives

• ffmpeg-light

  9.0 3.4 tar VS ffmpeg-light

  Minimal bindings to the FFmpeg library.

• utf8-string

  8.9 0.0 tar VS utf8-string

  Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings

• winery

  8.8 5.0 tar VS winery

  A compact, well-typed seralisation format for Haskell values

• zlib

  8.8 0.7 L3 tar VS zlib

  Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats

• zip-archive

  8.8 0.0 tar VS zip-archive

  Library for creating and modifying zip archives.

• snappy

  8.1 0.0 tar VS snappy

  Bindings to the Google Snappy library for fast compression/decompression

• codec

  8.1 0.0 tar VS codec

  First-class record construction and bidirectional serialization

• multihash-serialise

  7.8 1.1 tar VS multihash-serialise

  CBOR encoding of multihashes

• lzma

  7.8 0.0 tar VS lzma

  LZMA/XZ compression and decompression

• lz4

  7.7 0.0 L1 tar VS lz4

  LZ4 compression for ByteStrings

• lzma-conduit

  7.5 0.0 tar VS lzma-conduit

  Conduit interface for lzma/xz compression.

• bmp

  7.4 0.0 tar VS bmp

  Read and write uncompressed BMP image files.

• postgresql-binary

  7.3 2.0 tar VS postgresql-binary

  Encoders and decoders for the PostgreSQL's binary format

• qrcode

  7.3 0.0 tar VS qrcode

  QR Code library in pure Haskell

• zip-conduit

  7.2 0.0 tar VS zip-conduit

  Working with zip archives via conduits.

• base32-bytestring

  7.1 0.0 tar VS base32-bytestring

  Fast base32 and base32hex codec for ByteStrings

• SHA

  7.1 0.0 tar VS SHA

  Implementations of the SHA suite of message digest functions

• sandi

  6.8 0.0 tar VS sandi

  Data encoding library

• HCodecs

  6.7 0.0 tar VS HCodecs

  A library to read, write and manipulate MIDI, WAVE, and SoundFont2 files.

• friday-juicypixels

  6.5 0.0 tar VS friday-juicypixels

  Converts between the Friday and JuicyPixels image types

• wavefront

  6.4 0.0 tar VS wavefront

  Wavefront OBJ loader

• html-entities

  6.2 0.0 tar VS html-entities

  A codec library for HTML-escaped text and HTML-entities

• xls

  6.2 1.6 tar VS xls

  Parse Microsoft Excel xls files (BIFF/Excel 97-2004)

• zlib-enum

  5.9 0.0 tar VS zlib-enum

  Enumerator interface for zlib compression

• zip-stream

  5.8 1.7 tar VS zip-stream

  ZIP archive streaming using conduits

• qrcode-core

  5.8 2.8 tar VS qrcode-core

  QR code library in pure Haskell

• logic-TPTP

  5.7 0.0 tar VS logic-TPTP

  Import, export etc. for TPTP, a syntax for first-order logic

• simple-tar

  5.5 0.0 tar VS simple-tar

  Simple, pure, file-system-free reading of tar files

• libvorbis

  5.5 0.0 tar VS libvorbis

  Haskell binding for libvorbis, for decoding Ogg Vorbis audio files

• cryptostore

  5.5 0.5 tar VS cryptostore

  Serialization of cryptographic data types

• activitystreams-aeson

  5.4 0.0 tar VS activitystreams-aeson

  An interface to the ActivityStreams specification

• base91

  5.2 0.0 tar VS base91

  A Generic Base91 Encoder & Decoder

• threefish

  5.2 0.0 tar VS threefish

  The Threefish block cipher and the Skein hash function for Haskell.

• zlib-lens

  5.0 0.0 tar VS zlib-lens

  Lenses for zlib

• netpbm

  4.8 0.0 tar VS netpbm

  Loading PBM, PGM, PPM image files

• iteratee-compress

  4.8 0.0 tar VS iteratee-compress

  Enumeratees for compressing and decompressing streams

• lzlib

  4.3 1.1 tar VS lzlib

  lzlib bindings

• fountain

  4.3 0.0 tar VS fountain

  A fountain codec.

• bzlib-conduit

  4.3 0.0 L1 tar VS bzlib-conduit

  Streaming compression/decompression via conduits.

• cityhash

  4.3 0.0 L4 tar VS cityhash

  Bindings to CityHash

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