Re: [Haskell] [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: system-filepath 0.4.5 and system-fileio 0.3.4

2012-02-05 Thread John Millikin
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 18:49, Joey Hess wrote: > John Millikin wrote: >> In GHC  7.2 and later, file path handling in the platform libraries >> was changed to treat all paths as text (encoded according to locale). >> This does not work well on POSIX systems, because POSIX paths are byte >> sequenc

Re: [Haskell] [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: system-filepath 0.4.5 and system-fileio 0.3.4

2012-02-05 Thread Joey Hess
John Millikin wrote: > In GHC 7.2 and later, file path handling in the platform libraries > was changed to treat all paths as text (encoded according to locale). > This does not work well on POSIX systems, because POSIX paths are byte > sequences. There is no guarantee that any particular path wil

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: system-filepath 0.4.5 and system-fileio 0.3.4

2012-02-05 Thread John Millikin
Both packages now have much-improved support for non-UTF8 paths on POSIX systems. There are no significant changes to Windows support in this release. system-filepath 0.4.5: Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/system-filepath-0.4.5 API reference: https://john-millikin.com/software/haskell