[Haskell-cafe] Heads up: planned removal of String instances from HTTP package

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

Unfortunately I lack the time for a wholesale cleanup. If others have
proposals and are willing to supply the patches that's a different matter!

On 30/01/2013 08:01, Alfredo Di Napoli wrote:
> Maybe (just my 2 cents!) since you are going to broke the API anyway, go
> for it
> and seize the occasion to really clean up :)
> Obviously I'm saying this from a non-http-user point of view, maybe if I had
> some code in production affected by this, my suggestion would have been
> different :P
> 
> Regards,
> A.
> 
> On 30 January 2013 07:00, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li
> <mailto:ganesh at earth.li>> wrote:
> 
>     On 29/01/2013 22:46, Johan Tibell wrote:
>     > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Ganesh Sittampalam
>     <ganesh at earth.li <mailto:ganesh at earth.li>> wrote:
>     >> tl;dr: I'm planning on removing the String instances from the HTTP
>     >> package. This is likely to break code. Obviously it will involve
>     a major
>     >> version bump.
>     >
>     > I think it's the right thing to do. Providing a little upgrade guide
>     > should help things to go smoother.
> 
>     One obvious cheap-and-dirty migration is via a newtype wrapper for
>     String that embeds the old broken behaviour (char8 encoding). Perhaps
>     the package should provide that? (with appropriate warnings etc)
> 
>     Ganesh
> 
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