Re: Proposal: add ByteString support to unix:System.Posix.IO API

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/3/11 14:19 , Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

2011/3/3 Brandon S Allbery KF8NH mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com>

Which was my point. If you're going to deprecate Strings, do so across the board in an organized manner --- not via ad hoc deprecations to individual libraries.

The only problem with that is that ad hoc deprecations are achievable by individual library maintainers, while a "stop-the-world" approach won't, I think, work.

Isn't this what the Haskell Platform process is for? Individual libraries, yes, but as part of an overarching plan so you don't have e.g. network desupporting String while some other library decides to hold onto them as default a bit longer. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery.b@gmail.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] kf8nh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1wQAsACgkQIn7hlCsL25XzUgCgrWbum/11DA8f4YrBS26hn6dI 8h0AniUs5rf6/+gdB269dQLGpWmYX4uX =Y2FV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----