Proposal: add ByteString support to unix:System.Posix.IO API

[Johan Tibell]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:18 PM, wren ng thornton <wren at freegeek.org> wrote:
>>
>> I've written variants of the System.Posix.IO API for strict and lazy
>> ByteStrings which are currently lingering in their own unpublished
>> package[1]. It's silly to have a separate package for just four functions,
>> so I'd like to see it combined into the unix package. I don't have access to
>> create a new ticket with the patch, but it's available at [2].
>
> I think that the strict bytestring version should just replace the current
> function in System.Posix.IO, and the lazy version should not go in at all.
> This is the approach taken by the network package, and it's cleanest.

Thanks for working on this Wren.

I agree with Bryan's point.

Johan