14 Jun
2007
14 Jun
'07
10:44 p.m.
ndmitchell:
Hi Creighton,
This might be a silly question for you guys, but is there a reason why yhc still uses PackedString in places instead of ByteString?
Two reasons:
1) ByteStrings are totally unreliable - they can't be made to work in GHC 6.4 and GHC 6.6 without features of Cabal that aren't even written
I think Neil means here that you can't write a .cabal file, for code that uses Data.ByteString, that will work unchanged with ghc 6.4 and ghc 6.6, since the module is in a different package in each case. So, I'd probably rephrase that as "Due to cabal limitations ..." -- Don