Re: [Haskell-cafe] Heads up: planned removal of String instances from HTTP package

30 Jan 2013


      Unfortunately I lack the time for a wholesale cleanup. If others have
proposals and are willing to supply the patches that's a different matter!

On 30/01/2013 08:01, Alfredo Di Napoli wrote:
...
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 mailto:ganesh@earth.li> wrote:
On 29/01/2013 22:46, Johan Tibell wrote:
    > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Ganesh Sittampalam
    mailto: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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