[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: fgl-5.4.2.3

[Martin Hilbig]

On 12.07.2010 09:25, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> A couple of points I meant to make here but forgot (I was busy hacking
> on this and my other three graph-related packages for over a week now,
> and especially this past weekend it cut into my sleeping...):
>
> * Apart from bug-fixes, I don't intend on touching the 5.4 series any
>    more.  That said, I believe that this version is suitable for
>    replacing 5.4.2.2 in the platform (what's the process on that?).
>
> * After I get my generic graph class sorted out at AusHac this coming
>    weekend, I intend to make a 5.5.0.0 release which extends the classes
>    in this new library; this will probably _not_ be suitable for the
>    platform and is intended to serve as a stepping stone to the
>    replacement library Thomas Bereknyei and I are working on.
>
> With that last point: Thomas and I are willing to call this new
> version/replacement something like "inductive-graphs" if that is the
> preference of the community.  Does anyone know of a website that would
> let us have a survey we can use to determine which option people would
> prefer?

how about http://doodle.com?

have fun, keep hacking.
martin

>  Note that even if we give it a new name (rather than just a new
> major version number), we still intend on using the Data.Graph.Inductive
> module namespace (as it makes even more sense with the new name), so
> there will still be clashes between this new version and fgl.
>
> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic<ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> I'm pleased to present the first new release of fgl [1] since Thomas
>> Bereknyei took over maintaining it from Martin Erwig.
>>
>> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/fgl
>>
>> Before people start panicking, rioting, etc., please check the version
>> number: this is just a bug-fix release, and not the complete re-write
>> version which we've been talking about (since we got a little
>> sidetracked, etc.).  As such, the API hasn't changed, and this should
>> fit right in to packages already using fgl (sorry to all those people
>> who followed my advice and put "fgl == 5.4.2.2" in the build-depends
>> fields of their packages' .cabal files, but I didn't expect to make
>> another 5.4.y release).
>>
>> The exact change that has been made is to fix a bug pointed out to me by
>> Tristan Allwood, in that Data.Graph.Inductive.PatriciaTree didn't
>> support multiple edges (and furthermore this wasn't specified in the
>> documentation).  This has now been rectified.  As an indication of what
>> these changes mean, see this sample call graph produced by my
>> SourceGraph program; when using PatriciaTree from fgl-5.4.2.2 the lines
>> were all the same thickness; now there is among other things a loop of
>> width 32 on getExp and a line of width 7 from getExp to maybeEnt.
>