[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCEMENT] xmobar 0.14

[Antoine Latter]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 18:25, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:
>>
>> previous versions of xmobar used to compile fine with GHC 6.10.4, but
>> the new version no longer does:
>>
>>    src/Parsers.hs:163:52:
>>        Couldn't match expected type `Char' against inferred type `[Char]'
>>          Expected type: GenParser Char st Char
>>          Inferred type: GenParser Char st String
>>        In the second argument of `($)', namely `wrapSkip $ string "Run"'
>>        In a stmt of a 'do' expression:
>>              notFollowedBy $ wrapSkip $ string "Run"
>
>
> xmobar currently requires parsec 3.x; the above is the symptom of building
> it against 2.x.
>

It's not clear to me from reading the sources and type signatures of
'notFollowedBy' why this is different in parsec 2 vs. parsec 3.

Am I missing something easy? Because if it isn't obvious perhaps it
wasn't on purpose.

Antoine