(when (compilesOk) (announce newVersion)) This is a development release announcement of "TextRegexLazy" The "TextRegexLazy" package is dead. Long Live [regex-base -- interfaces ,regex-compat -- replace Text.Regex ,regex-posix -- PosixRE backend ,regex-pcre -- PCRE backend ,regex-parsec -- My lazy Haskell backend ,regex-dfa -- DFA based on modified CTKLight (LGPL) ] Note: Everything is BSD licensed except the regex-dfa engine which is LGPL. The darcs repository at http://evenmere.org/~chrisk/trl/head/ has the new version. The regex-compat package is a single Text.Regex.New module that uses regex-posix to replace Text.Regex (I cut and pasted from the Text.Regex module and re-implemented some of the functions). The old Text.Regex.Posix module is bypassed (so it could be removed in the future). Changing the dependency to a different backend is as simply as changing the import statement. Changing from String to ByteString would be a simple search-and-replace (and import Data.ByteString). The regex-posix package does not have a personal copy of the posix regex library like the copy GHC brings to Windows: http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/base/cbits/regex/ If someone can get regex-posix working on Windows, then [regex-base,regex-posix,regex-compat] will be functionally ready to be included along with GHC. TODO: * Much Haddock fixing for the new module hierarchy * Point the test cases at the new packages * Benchmark -- Chris Kuklewicz