Hi,
After reading the Safe Haskell paper today, I got the impression that no one actually wants the .Safe modules currently in vector. If vector was to be made Safe Haskell friendly, we should instead add .Unsafe modules (and have the rest of the modules declared Trustworthy). Having .Unsafe modules is better than having .Safe modules, because
* there are many more safe functions than unsafe functions, and * Haskell is by default safe, so having modules called .Safe is a bit like having modules called .Pure. There's precedence for having .Unsafe modules in e.g. bytestring.
If that's the case, and if Roman agrees, I suggest we release a new major version that
* removes all the .Safe modules [1], * adds new .Unsafe modules, and * marks the functions that are now exported through the .Unsafe modules deprecated in their original (non-.Unsafe) location.
+1 from me. Milan