[Haskell-cafe] Oddness with binary-0.5.0.2 user install

[Antoine Latter]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> The docs for binary-0.5.0.2 on Hackage claim that their is a Binary
> instance for lazy ByteStrings, but there does not seem to be such an
> instance in my local install of binary-0.5.0.2.
>
> In addition, the docs on Hackage claim that there is an Applicative
> instance for the 'Get' type, which my install is also lacking.
>
> I've verified this in ghci and by looking at my own locally generated haddocks.
>
> The module structure for the 'binary' package is pretty
> straightforward - so I don't think I'm missing any imports in ghci.
>
> Has anyone seen this before?
>
> Antoine
>

So I just did a "cabal install binary --reinstall" and it only broke
two packages and also fixed the issue.

The Applicative instance was guarded by some ifdefs, but I didn't see
anything similar for the lazy bytestring instance.

Antoine