I feel that ns_export/import should genericize the ability to take
lists and such and export them. On the other end it should take a
standard (or non-standard) dump format and convert it to a standard
tcl structure.
I would hope it could have a plugin architecture, but if not, it
could comprise several functions.
I only mention it as an ns_module because I feel it should be below
the OpenACS level and then can easily exploit existing libraries/C
code.
On another note, I was looking at some libraries and found a few
interesting crypto libs in C++, I think AOLServer can use lib in C++
but I am not sure. It seems that a couple of modules are written in
C++ with a wrapper in C. Does anyone know about this?