On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Ganesh Sittampalam <gan...@earth.li> wrote: > tl;dr: I'm planning on removing the String instances from the HTTP > package. This is likely to break code. Obviously it will involve a major > version bump. > > The basic reason is that this instance is rather broken in itself. A > String ought to represent Unicode data, but the HTTP wire format is > bytes, and HTTP makes no attempt to handle encoding. > > This was discussed on the libraries@ list a while back, but I'm happy to > discuss further if there's a general feeling that this is a bad thing to do: > > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2012-September/018426.html > > I will probably upload the new version in a week or two.
I think it's the right thing to do. Providing a little upgrade guide should help things to go smoother. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe