template-haskell depends on packedstring

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Duncan Coutts  wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 22:53 -0500, Gwern Branwen wrote:
>> So I was trying to compile lambdabot with cabal-install. Lambdabot
>> uses Template Haskell  for generating some boilerplate, and it was a
>> failed dependency. Template Haskell uses packedstring for...
>> something... and packedstring was a failed dependency:
>> Data/PackedString.hs:83:7:
>>     Could not find module `Data.Data':
>>       it is a member of package base, which is hidden
>>
>> Now this is a problem, but it's not the problem I am interested in. I
>> am interested in: why is template-haskell using packedstring? Wasn't
>> packedstring obsoleted years ago?
>
> Yes.
>
> The question is if one should break the TH api just to remove this
> deprecated dependency. Especially when it is slated to be replaced with
> an improved unicode packed string type in the future.
>
> So either we break it once, or twice.
>
> Duncan

I don't really see why we would need to change the API; let's just
make the types = String, and the conversion functions null-ops. Unless
there's some sort of low-level binary API compatibility you are
referring to?

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gwern
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