On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 01:49:43PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 14:01 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
* Move to Haskeline for the default build. We have to bring in terminfo and utf8-string as bootlibs. This gives us line-editing on Windows, and removes problematic external C library dependencies.
I think this is worth trying. It seems like Judah is prepared to put the work in to make haskeline work on various platforms and to trim the dependencies.
Eg I'd rather us decide what to do about Unicode input rather than just end up de-facto standardising the utf8-string package.
Right, if we're targetting this for 6.12 then there's no rush (and we have some time until 6.10.2, too, if we decide to change things for that). I think we should step back and think about whether utf8-string is the package that we're going to want to use for: * IO in the base libraries * The ptext function in Text.PrettyPrint * Implementing FastString on top of as we really want all of these to use the same library. Thanks Ian