Re: [web-devel] Last call for comments: WAI 0.4

I think it's more of a readability thing, than replacing symbols for fun. -- Markus Läll On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Christian Maeder wrote:

Am 30.03.2011 15:31, schrieb Roel van Dijk:

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Hi,

The UnicodeSyntax extension was already supported by GHC 6.8.1. I just released a new version of base-unicode-symbols (0.2.1.2) which also works with base-3.0. This means you can now build the package with GHC 6.8.1 and with every newer release.

The base-unicode-symbols package itself is usually an internal dependency. It is not part of the interface of any of its reverse dependencies. Because it is a tiny package the build times are insignificant. On my system a "cabal install base-unicode-symbols" takes 2 seconds and takes up 300KB of disk space.

To conclude: Whether some package X depends on base-unicode-symbols or not doesn't matter from the perspective of the users of said package X.

Still such toy stuff does not belong into production code and is possibly just a stupid burden for other tools processing haskell source code.

C.

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On 29 March 2011 20:54, Neil Mitchell wrote:

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I'm sort of shocked by the many dependencies (already via http-types) on

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blaze-builder, text, case-insensitive and (really unnecessarily) on base-unicode-symbols.

As far as I am aware, base-unicode-symbols only works on GHC 6.12 and above. For Hoogle, which uses WAI, I deliberately try and work on GHC version 6.10 as well - GHC 7 is only very just out, and a version which is basically functional for most users has only been released in the last week - making 6.10 effectively the release before last. Excluding 6.10 for good reasons is fine, excluding it for a fairly unnecessary dependency makes me sad.

Thanks, Neil

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