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

On 29/01/2013 22:46, Johan Tibell wrote:

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:

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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