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

[Sittampalam, Ganesh]

We don't need to stop-the-world, but we can at least agree a general
policy in advance of starting to make such changes.
 
In this specific case the unicode/byte mismatch means there's a strong
case for doing it anyway; but one might argue for replacing String with
[Char8] instead of removing it completely. Again, if we had a generally
agreed approach to what "string" types to support, we could justify
individual decisions like this easily by reference to that policy.

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[mailto:libraries-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Bryan O'Sullivan
Sent: 03 March 2011 19:20
To: Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
Cc: libraries at haskell.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: add ByteString support to unix:System.Posix.IO
API


2011/3/3 Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <allbery.b at gmail.com>



	Which was my point.  If you're going to deprecate Strings, do so
across the
	board in an organized manner --- not via ad hoc deprecations to
individual
	libraries.
	


The only problem with that is that ad hoc deprecations are achievable by
individual library maintainers, while a "stop-the-world" approach won't,
I think, work. 

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