haxml

[Lennart Kolmodin]

Don Stewart wrote:
> The haxml version of hackage.haskell.org relied on the deprecated
> function 'ByteString.join' which has been replaced with
> 'ByteString.intercalate' since the last release.
> 
> This means haxml doesn't build with bytestring 0.9.1.0, which some
> people might have updated to.

In Gentoo we apply this patch before compiling:
http://haskell.org/~gentoo/gentoo-haskell/dev-haskell/haxml/files/haxml-1.19.2-intercalate.patch

as join and intercalcate seems to be the same functions with different 
names.

The interesting part is the comment in the header of the patch...

> Malcolm, what should we do ? I can reintroduce 'join' and leave it
> deprecated for another year, or is there a new haxml release on the
> horizon?

-- kolmodin