bytestring

[Don Stewart]

simonmarhaskell:
> Don Stewart wrote:
> >dons:
> >>simonpj:
> >>>   In bytestring package, Data.Char8 doesn't even get past the parser. 
> >>>   What's going on with bytestring?
> >>>
> >>Looks like the last patch added a ',' to the end of a line, which was
> >>silently accepted by 6.6.1 which Duncan uses, but failed with the head
> >>(which I use).
> >>
> >>Patch applied.
> >
> >Raises an interesting issue that library maintainers need to check
> >against 2 or 3 different ghc versions for each patch. Hmm.
> 
> We don't want to impose such a burdensome regime - the rule is, if you've 
> run validate then you're off the hook.  For the Cabal folks we've even 
> forked Cabal so that the developers don't have to validate at all, and we 
> could consider doing that for other libraries too.
> 

We forked bytestring during the hackathon too. So the head branch on
darcs.haskell.org is now the de facto stable branch, since GHC uses it.

All good.

-- Don