[Haskell-cafe] Happstack + network package issue on the Mac

[Anton van Straaten]

Gregory Collins wrote:
> Sean Leather <leather at cs.uu.nl> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 16:35, Gregory Collins wrote:
>>
>>     Sean Leather <leather at cs.uu.nl> writes:

>> Do you know if it's possible to permanently patch happstack-server?
>> I'm guessing the TH in the patch is used to support multiple versions
>> of the network package. Can we just change the minimum supported
>> version?
> 
> There's been an open ticket for months; personally I think this is a job
> for the C preprocessor, but nobody's written a patch yet. I'm not sure
> but I think IPv6 template Haskell stuff is there not to support old
> versions of network, but to support platforms where IPv6 may not be
> available.

I don't recall whether there was some objection to this suggestion 
previously, but assuming IPv6 support is available might work on more 
platforms.  Then special action would only need to be taken on platforms 
that lack IPv6.

Anton