Configure the hidden service automatically

[photm5]

This will require a pull request to network-anonymous-tor. For now, I propose to let the users configure it themselves.

[sternenseemann]

Example torrc commited as of ba810d1

[sternenseemann]

@froozen's Pull Request is pending.

[photm5]

The PR is merged by now. @froozen does it suffice for our needs?

Do we plan to add a small wrapper to this library?

[froozen]

I'd propose having the user of the just pass in a Socket when they want to run the Ricochet-Monad, as they can simply open it themselves, if they already configured the hidden service in their tor instance or use network-anonymous-tor to do it for them.
This would clash with #18, though, as network-anonymous-tor uses Network.Socket in their interface, which we would have to use as well then.

[photm5]

The implementation of accepting a Socket connection in network-anonymous-tor is merely a small wrapper, if I remember right. This means we could rewrite that wrapper to use haskell-socket and add it to this library. Problematic might be that probably there are lots of more libraries out there that support the Network.Socket interface.

What do you think?

[froozen]

I guess we should have @lukasepple explain to us why he thinks we should use haskell-socket instead and decide then wether it's worth the trouble.

[sternenseemann]

Platform independant and POSIX compliant interface.

[froozen]

Platform independant as in Windows compatible?

[sternenseemann]

Yes

[froozen]

I don't think better POSIX compliance is an equal tradeoff for compatability to other libraries.
We should use Network.Socket, at least until we start having problems with it.

[sternenseemann]

Why would we drop compatibility with other libraries?

[photm5]

Because other libraries might provide means of creating Network.Socket instances. Our library would only be capable of handling System.Socket.Socket instances.

[froozen]

Because there's a lot of libraries providing utility functionality for Network.Socket that users of our library might want to use, like network-attoparsec. This would be impossible if we used System.Socket.Socket.

[photm5]

:)

[sternenseemann]

I see.

[sternenseemann]

What is the status here?

[froozen]

Should've been closed by merging #33.