Re: Haskell Platform: Updates to package spec for 2010.1.0.0. Time to start testing installers!]

On 14/03/2010 18:41, Don Stewart wrote:

johan.tibell:

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Hi all,

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Don Stewart wrote:

-- utf8-string ==0.3.4 -- NEW

Are we sure we want to standardize on this? I understand that many people use this library as it was the best option available for a while. However, the 'text' library seems to be a better candidate from a technical perspective and is now mature enough that we could consider including it in the platform.

Yes, I'm not sure what we want to do about GHC shipping things like a fork of binary (ghc-binary) and a version (old) of utf8-string.

Shall we ignore those libs? That would match the policy better -- it is just lucky for the users that ghc will dump a few extra things on their machine.

ghc-binary is a dependency of the ghc package, so we need that. It's unfortunate that it is visible. utf8-string was shipped accidentally, I believe - it's a dependency of the GHC front-end due to being a dependency of Haskeline, but it isn't needed for anything else. Ian, are we fixing that in 6.12.2? Cheers, Simon