Bug#779518: ITP: node-binary -- Unpack multibyte binary values from buffers and streams in Node.js

[Bas Couwenberg]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Bas Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>

* Package name    : node-binary
  Version         : 0.3.0
  Upstream Author : James Halliday <mail at substack.net> (http://substack.net)
* URL             : https://github.com/substack/node-binary
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description     : Unpack multibyte binary values from buffers and streams in Node.js

The binary module allows you to unpack multibyte binary values from
buffers and streams in Node.js.

You can specify the endianness and signedness of the fields to be unpacked
too.

This module is a cleaner and more complete version of bufferlist's binary
module that runs on pre-allocated buffers instead of a linked list.


node-binary is required for node-decompress-zip (#779498) which in turn
is required for node-get-down (#779302).

The node-binary package will be maintained in the JavaScript team.