[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haxr doesn't compile from cabal (HTTP > 4000 breaks it)

[Jeff Heard]

haxr's also based on a fairly old version of HaXml.  I'm not sure what
the performance of the library is, other than it seems acceptable, but
moving to ByteStrings all the way through might do some good.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Henning Thielemann
<lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>
> Most breakage caused by new HTTP package is due to the renaming from
> Response to Response_String and Request to Request_String. I think it was
> not a good idea to do that. There could have well be two types named
> Response from different modules, one with a type parameter and the other one
> without. Or the parametrized variant could have be named ResponseGeneric or
> so. That would have allowed packages to work both with version 3001 and
> 4000.
>