cvs commit: HaXml Makefile

[Malcolm Wallace]

Ross Paterson <ross@soi.city.ac.uk> writes:

> >   HaXml package version number is now at 1.09.
> 
> A few nits:
> - in pkg.conf, how about making it depend on haskell98 instead of lang+data?

HaXml still works with ghc 5.02.x, which only has lang+data, not haskell98.

> - this package includes Text.PrettyPrint.HughesPJ, which overlaps with base
>   (and seems to be an older version)

Again, for backward compatibility with ghc-5.02.x.  This
pretty-printing module is removed by the configuration script if
it detects the presence of a newer ghc.

> - in Text/XML/HaXml/Validate.hs, you could remove the #ifdef
>   __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ around the import FiniteMap -- Hugs has had the
>   module for 4 years, and I guess Nhc has too.

nhc98 has only just adopted the Data.FiniteMap module, and never had
the original FiniteMap.

Once the hierarchical libraries have been around for a while, I do
intend to settle on the new standard namings, and eventually ditch
the backward compatibility.  However, I think it would be slightly
premature to go the whole way now.

Regards,
    Malcolm