I wrote WinIO a couple of times when I meant to type Win32. Sorry!
On 23 January 2022 1:32:15 pm IST, Zubin Duggal
- More serious: why was Win32 major bumped from 2.10 to 2.12? - this breaks foundation, hence current Stackage Nightly is kind of broken for Windows now: https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stackage/issues/6400
We needed to bump Win32 as per a request from the maintainer made at https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/20017
Bumping it from 2.10.0 to 2.10.1.0 ran into https://github.com/haskell/win32/issues/174, which was fixed by https://github.com/haskell/win32/pull/175
Given this, our options at the time were:
1) Backport pull request #175 to 2.10.1 and wait for a new release of Win32
2) Revert https://github.com/haskell/win32/pull/160 in Win32 2.10, which is what caused WinIO/#174
3) Use Win32 2.12.0.1, which contains the requested fix(ghc/#20017), as well as the explicit exports added by #175, along with a few other minor changes from Win32 2.11 which I don't think are responsible for any of the pain discussed in the stackage issue.
I made the decision to go with option 3 in the interests of getting the release out.
However, if I understand correctly, we would still end up with the same problems as brought up in the stackage issue if we went with option 1.
We might have avoided some of this pain if we went with option 2 and reverted the offending commits from WinIO 2.10 instead of using explicit import lists. But removing features from a major release of a library didn't seem like a good idea at a time, and would have delayed the 9.0.2 release even more.
I hope this makes the reasoning for the decision clearer, and I do apologise for any pain caused. I did believe that under the circumstances bumping WinIO to 2.12.0.1 was the best way forward. Perhaps option 2 would have been better in retrospect, but at the time the benefits for such a change (in particular the regression in functionality) in a major release of Win32 were not so clear.
Cheers, Zubin _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users