Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: bytestring 0.9.1.0

2008-04-21 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 01:27:20AM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > I guess we could try and adjust the names of the > C symbols to include the package name and version. Or just rewrite the C bits in Haskell? There isn't much of it, and it doesn't look like there is a good reason that C should be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: bytestring 0.9.1.0

2008-04-21 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:07:48PM -0700, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > > The use of bytestring inside GHC is limited only to a little bit in the > GHCi modules -- and could easily be replaced, I suspect. Doing so would > remove one dependency from GHC's core, as well as making it easier to > upgr

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: bytestring 0.9.1.0

2008-04-20 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 19:05 -0500, Austin Seipp wrote: > > That's all good news; will this release of ByteString be used for GHC 6.8.3? > > I'm a little tired of linking everything against 0.9.0.1 just so I can use > > Yi > > (since GHC/the-GHC-API links against it). :) > > Indeed; this is the b

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: bytestring 0.9.1.0

2008-04-20 Thread Don Stewart
mad.one: > > That's all good news; will this release of ByteString be used for GHC 6.8.3? > > I'm a little tired of linking everything against 0.9.0.1 just so I can use > > Yi > > (since GHC/the-GHC-API links against it). :) > > Indeed; this is the biggest issue I have with bytestring right now a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: bytestring 0.9.1.0

2008-04-20 Thread Austin Seipp
> That's all good news; will this release of ByteString be used for GHC 6.8.3? > I'm a little tired of linking everything against 0.9.0.1 just so I can use Yi > (since GHC/the-GHC-API links against it). :) Indeed; this is the biggest issue I have with bytestring right now as it's interfered with m

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: bytestring 0.9.1.0

2008-04-20 Thread Gwern Branwen
On 2008.04.20 15:09:33 -0700, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled 1.7K characters: > > Hey all, > > I'm pleased to announce a new major release of bytestring, the efficient > string library for Haskell, suitable for high-performance scenarios. > > This release is primarily an (incremental) p

[Haskell-cafe] Announce: bytestring 0.9.1.0

2008-04-20 Thread Don Stewart
Hey all, I'm pleased to announce a new major release of bytestring, the efficient string library for Haskell, suitable for high-performance scenarios. This release is primarily an (incremental) performance improvement release, though with some notable significant improvements, along with long te