On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Johan Tibell
Hi all,
I like to announce a new version of the network package, network-2.2.3. You can install the latest version by running:
cabal update && cabal install network
This version marks the end of the network-bytestring package, which has now been merged into the network package. This means that efficient and correct networking using ByteStrings is available as part of the standard network package.
As part of the merger, two new modules have been added: Network.Socket.ByteString and Network.Socket.ByteString.lAzy
This release is backwards compatible with the previous release.
After merging the packages, I only bumped the minor version of network. That wasn't a great idea, as anyone with a dependency on "network == 2.2.*" (or equivalent) and network-bytestring got build problems due to module name clashes. I've released network-2.3 and added a preferred version constraint to Hackage to avoid having people end up using network-2.2.3.*. If you want the new ByteString-based modules please depend on network-2.3.*, if you use qualified imports, and network-2.3.0.*, if you don't. If you previously depended on both network and network-bytestring and still want to support older versions of network you can use Cabal's flag feature. Example: flag network-bytestring Library if flag(network-bytestring) build-depends: network < 2.2.3, network-bytestring < 0.1.4 else build-depends: network >= 2.3 && < 2.3.1 Sorry for the mess. Johan