Changes to GHC that will expose new packages

[David Terei]

So its great everyone is sharing but this thread was started with a
simple discussion point.

The adding of additional dependencies of mtl, haskeline, terminfo (and
maybe utf8-string) to GHC and how it's handled by Haskell Platform and
other packagers. The outcome I take to be that this is mostly
acceptable except for perhaps utf8-stirng which shouldn't be an issue
once haskeline 0.7 is released.

On 26 March 2012 05:14, Judah Jacobson <judah.jacobson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Mark Lentczner <mark at glyphic.com> wrote:
>>
>> While I think haskeline and terminfo will not have a big effect, utf8-string
>> is a sad regression. I don't think that we'll be happy stating that as part
>> of the "batteries included", as we feel Text is the long term position. I'm
>> assuming that haskeline use of utf8-string is the reason? Any chance we can
>> get haskeline rev'd to use text?
>
> The next release of haskeline (0.7) will not need utf8-string (or
> text).  Instead, when built with ghc-7.4 and later, it will just use
> the base library's I/O encoding functionality.  (I should be able to
> complete haskeline-0.7 well before ghc-7.6.1 is released.)
>
> Best,
> -Judah
>
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