Re: Growing Haskell Platform

2012-12-07 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Excerpts from Michael Snoyman's message of Fri Dec 07 00:29:14 -0800 2012: > Let me give a more extreme example: suppose that the bug in text hadn't > simply been slower compile times, but instead it segfaulted every time you > appended two empty strings. What would be our response to users? Should

Re: Growing Haskell Platform

2012-12-07 Thread Edward Z. Yang
> Now this problem may be completely resolved in newer versions of > cabal-install, but I think having a large number of packages in the global > package database pegged at specific versions is a very strong recipe for > reintroducing version hell. Coming back to yaml: it depends on conduit. > Supp

Re: Removing the .Safe modules from vector (was: Haskell Platform proposal: Add the vector package)

2012-08-29 Thread Edward Z. Yang
+1 Cheers, Edward Excerpts from Johan Tibell's message of Wed Aug 29 21:33:44 -0400 2012: > Hi all, > > After reading the Safe Haskell paper today, I got the impression that > no one actually wants the .Safe modules currently in vector. If vector > was to be made Safe Haskell friendly, we should