On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts@worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> * keep an eye on text. We certainly want it, but it's
> a young package and there's no text I/O yet.

I'd say go for it. If the current API is good then that's enough. It's
not clear that there needs to be separate I/O modules for it. I might
suggest hiding all the fusion modules for starter though.

It's really not ready for prime time yet. I'm making changes to the API at the moment, but they're not complete, and I want to see what the new localised I/O support in 6.12 looks like to figure out whether I can hook into that in an agreeable fashion to get localised I/O without jumping through too many hoops. I'm even contemplating trimming the naming from Data.Text to Text, as part of my little war on meaningless module prefixes :-) So please, don't go for it just yet. Pitch in with patches instead!

Regards,
Bryan.