patch applied (ghc-6.8/packages/bytestring): Bump version to
0.9.0.2
Don Stewart
dons at galois.com
Sun Jun 1 19:59:01 EDT 2008
duncan.coutts:
>
> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 16:35 -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> > igloo:
> > > Sun Jun 1 11:14:51 PDT 2008 Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>
> > > * Bump version to 0.9.0.2
> > >
> > > M ./bytestring.cabal -1 +1
> >
> > Note that pick this number means it'll clash with version 0.9.0.2
> > released last year.
> >
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bytestring-0.9.0.2
> > Upload date Sun Dec 16 15:19:16 PST 2007
> > Uploaded by DonaldStewart
> >
> > These GHC-only minor tags need there own namespace perhaps?
>
> It should be able to use one of the actual bytestring releases. In this
> case it needs to be the same api as in 0.9.0.1, so the appropriate
> version should be 0.9.0.4 since that is supposed to have exactly the
> same API. As it happens we made a mistake in 0.9.0.2 if I recall
> correctly and made a minor api change (compatible addition, not breaking
> change). I don't recall what it was, you'd have to diff to find it.
>
> So I think either ghc-6.8.3 should use the existing bytestring-0.9.0.4
> release or we should do another bytestring-0.9.0.5 release with the
> fixes but without the api addition.
Or ghc 6.8.3 could not bump their bytestring branch, if there were no
changes.
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