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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add cereal + sparsehash
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:55:01 +0100
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Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:

> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 01:53:25PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>> The second patch adds =E2=80=9Csparsehash=E2=80=9D to the =E2=80=9Ccryp=
to=E2=80=9D module.  It=E2=80=99s
>>> probably not the best module for this package =E2=80=94 can you suggest=
 any
>>> other location for a hash table library?
>>
>> If it is not a cryptographically secure hash, it should go anywhere, but
>> not to the cryptography module. Both are called by the same name in Engl=
ish,
>> but are completely different things. Could you move it somewhere else?
>
> I=E2=80=99d like to do this, but I=E2=80=99m pretty bad at naming things.=
  How about a
> new module =E2=80=9Cdatastructures.scm=E2=80=9D where this could comforta=
bly fit in?  Or
> is this too vague?  Or should it go in the equally vague =E2=80=9Ccode.sc=
m=E2=80=9D
> (which actually is for tools operating on source code)?

I see there=E2=80=99s cityhash in textutils.scm and gperf in its own module.
Maybe textutils.scm?  Or next to cereal?

Ludo=E2=80=99.