2009/4/23 Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 05:59 -0700, Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
On 4/23/2009 02:05, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 18:55 -0700, Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
Hi Ian,
thanks for the update on plans and the willingness to jump in and do another release cycle so soon after 6.10.2. The suggested fixes seem agreeable to me, but I have one _minor_ additional request for 6.10.3 if you end having to rebuild 'base' -- add a DEPRECATED (or some such) to Foreign.ForeignPtr.{newForeignPtr,addForeignPtrFinalizer} to indicate that the operational behaviour of these have changed.
Small change, but could be helpful to package users&authors when migrating beyond 6.10.1
I agree that it's a little unfortunate that this change is in a minor release.
I'm not sure what can be done as far as automatic messages go however. The notice about the change is in the release notes. The functions are not deprecated (they're part of the FFI spec).
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that they were. Just offered it as a pragmatic solution to deliver extra help to folks without spending the dev. time to implement a more appropriate pragma like WARNING/INFO. If such a thing already existed...
For INFO we'd want a mechanism to have it tell us the first time but once we acknowledge the info, for it not to keep bugging us or our users every time. Hmm, tricky.
We do have a WARNING pragma, incedentally: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/pragmas.html#warning... Cheers, Simon