Maybe (just my 2 cents!) since you are going to broke the API anyway, go for it
and seize the occasion to really clean up :)
Obviously I'm saying this from a non-http-user point of view, maybe if I had
some code in production affected by this, my suggestion would have been different :P

Regards,
A.

On 30 January 2013 07:00, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li> wrote:
On 29/01/2013 22:46, Johan Tibell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li> wrote:
>> tl;dr: I'm planning on removing the String instances from the HTTP
>> package. This is likely to break code. Obviously it will involve a major
>> version bump.
>
> I think it's the right thing to do. Providing a little upgrade guide
> should help things to go smoother.

One obvious cheap-and-dirty migration is via a newtype wrapper for
String that embeds the old broken behaviour (char8 encoding). Perhaps
the package should provide that? (with appropriate warnings etc)

Ganesh

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