[Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <
ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, using the Char8 version.
>

Just because you *could* do that, it doesn't mean that you *should*. It's a
bad idea to use bytestrings for manipulating text, yet the only plausible
reason to have wl-pprint handle bytestrings is so that they can be used as
text.
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