Hello Simon, Thursday, October 25, 2007, 2:19:41 PM, you wrote:
imho, it's better to put it into separate library. consider also an option to provide it as extension to the my Streams library ( http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library/Streams )
Sure, but that would preclude using overlapped IO in the standard Handle implementation, which is where we need it right now. You want to be able to do ByteString IO using overlapped IO underneath, for example.
I'm not claiming this is a good long-term plan, but in order for it to be useful *now*, it has to go into base.
it's interesting that my understanding of situation is directly opposite - anything implemented just now in terms of base cannot be used next 1-1.5 years (many people skip x.x.0 GHC releases), while implemented as separate library van be used immediately ByteString support isn't problem for Streams, although it needs to be implemented. i've done this in 0.2 version, but it is completely bitrotted now and i don't have time to work on it but i propose to at least discuss architecture of future IO libraries - hope that all interested people have enough time and interest at least for doing this -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com