Bug#611422: ITP: libmath-base85-perl -- Perl extension for base 85 numbers, as referenced by RFC 1924

2011-01-29 Thread Niko Tyni 
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 03:27:54PM +0900, TANIGUCHI Takaki wrote:
 Package: wnpp
 Owner: tak...@debian.org
 Severity: wishlist
 
 * Package name: libmath-base85-perl
   Version : 0.2 
   Upstream Author : Tony Monroe
 * URL or Web page : http://cpan.org/
 * License : Perl
   Description : Perl extension for base 85 numbers, as referenced by RFC 
 1924
  RFC 1924 describes a compact, fixed-size representation of IPv6 addresses
  which uses a base 85 number system. Math::Base85 handles some of the uglier
  details of it.

Do you really have a use case for this?

RFC 1924 is an April 1st one, and I've never seen anybody actually use
the base85 representation of IPv6 addresses anywhere.

(In case somebody wants a quick try, ipv6calc supports it:
 % ipv6calc -O base85 2607:f8f0:610:4000:214:38ff:feee:b65a
 No input type specified, try autodetection...found type: ipv6addr
 B7RDhRib#Y+VwlwuPBOG
)
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Bug#611422: ITP: libmath-base85-perl -- Perl extension for base 85 numbers, as referenced by RFC 1924

2011-01-29 Thread brian m. carlson 
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 08:45:58PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
 Do you really have a use case for this?

It looks like this is not generic enough, but if it were, it could be
used for PostScript and PDF, which can use Ascii85.  The printable
characters used there are different, though.

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Bug#611422: ITP: libmath-base85-perl -- Perl extension for base 85 numbers, as referenced by RFC 1924

2011-01-28 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki 
Package: wnpp
Owner: tak...@debian.org
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: libmath-base85-perl
  Version : 0.2 
  Upstream Author : Tony Monroe
* URL or Web page : http://cpan.org/
* License : Perl
  Description : Perl extension for base 85 numbers, as referenced by RFC 
1924
 RFC 1924 describes a compact, fixed-size representation of IPv6 addresses
 which uses a base 85 number system. Math::Base85 handles some of the uglier
 details of it.
 .
 The base 85 numbers (from 0 to 84) are as follows:
 .
 0..9 A..Z a..z ! # $ %  ( ) * + - ;  =  ? @ ^ _ ` { | } ~
 .
 At the moment, there's not much in this module. But it should be sufficient
 for the purposes of RFC 1924.
 .
 This module has a variable called $Math::Base85::base85_digits, which is a
 string containing the digits of the base 85 alphabet from lowest (0) to
 highest (~), in that order.



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