simonmarhaskell: > Don Stewart wrote: > >dons: > >>simonpj: > >>> In bytestring package, Data.Char8 doesn't even get past the parser. > >>> What's going on with bytestring? > >>> > >>Looks like the last patch added a ',' to the end of a line, which was > >>silently accepted by 6.6.1 which Duncan uses, but failed with the head > >>(which I use). > >> > >>Patch applied. > > > >Raises an interesting issue that library maintainers need to check > >against 2 or 3 different ghc versions for each patch. Hmm. > > We don't want to impose such a burdensome regime - the rule is, if you've > run validate then you're off the hook. For the Cabal folks we've even > forked Cabal so that the developers don't have to validate at all, and we > could consider doing that for other libraries too. >
We forked bytestring during the hackathon too. So the head branch on darcs.haskell.org is now the de facto stable branch, since GHC uses it. All good. -- Don _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
