Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

2010/8/15 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic :

Vo Minh Thu writes:

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2010/8/15 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic :

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Don Stewart writes:

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    * Pay attention to Haskell Cafe announcements     * Follow the Reddit Haskell news.     * Read the quarterly reports on Hackage     * Follow Planet Haskell

And yet there are still many packages that fall under the radar with no announcements of any kind on initial release or even new versions :(

If you're interested in a comprehensive update list, you can follow Hackage on Twitter, or the news feed.

Except that that doesn't tell you:

* The purpose of the library * How a release differs from a previous one * Why you should use it, etc.

Furthermore, several interesting discussions have arisen out of announcement emails.

Sure, nor does it write a book chapter about some practical usage. I mean (tongue in cheek) that the other ressource, nor even some proper annoucement, provide all that. I still remember the UHC annoucement (a (nearly) complete Haskell 98 compiler) thread where most of it was about lack of support for n+k pattern. But the bullet list above was to point Andrew a few places where he could have learn about Text. Cheers, Thu