On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Myles C. Maxfield <myles.maxfi...@gmail.com > wrote:
> I am the author/maintainer of the 'punycode' hackage package. After 4 > months, I just found that punycode conversion already exists in the > Data.Encoding.BootString package inside the 'encoding' package. I'd like to > deprecate my package in favor of the 'encoding' package. > Please don't plan to do that. The encoding package may have filled a gap at some point, but now it looks old, unwieldy, inefficient (String), and weird (implicit parameters?) to me, and it's mostly obsolete (the standard I/O library has supported Unicode and encodings for a while now). I would not use the encodings package myself, for instance. Your punycode package, in contrast, has a simple API and looks easy to use. I'd suggest that you supprt the Text type as well as String, but otherwise please keep it around and maintain it.
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