On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 12:40 +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| According to the GHC Status October 2011 Report[3], the GHC 7.4 branch | is supposed to be in "feature freeze" by now. Does this affect/include | the bytestring library (as it happens to be a GHC-boot library) as well?
Yes, we're supposed to be but we have two big additions nearly ready but not quite validate free so we have pushed it out a few days.
| More specifically, if the ongoing proposals "Add {to,from}Strict | conversion functions between strict and lazy ByteStrings"[1] and "Add | NFData instances for strict and lazy ByteStrings"[2] succeed, what's the | next stable GHC release they're gonna be included in?
I defer to the bytestring maintainers: Don Stewart and Duncan Coutts.
Don, Duncan: were you wanting to get these changes into 7.4?
Yes. They're now in the upstream repo for bytestring along with various other changes. So I hope that'll flow through into ghc's mirror. Duncan