Can the in-progress ByteString proposals make it into GHC 7.4.1?

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:07:31PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 18:12 +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:15:17AM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 12:40 +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Don, Duncan: were you wanting to get these changes into 7.4?
> > > 
> > > Yes. They're now in the upstream repo for bytestring along with various
> > > other changes. So I hope that'll flow through into ghc's mirror.
> > 
> > I tried pulling them a few days ago, but validate didn't go through.
> 
> Due to other libs requiring bytestring == 0.9.*, or any other more
> interesting reason? If you don't recall, nm.

I don't think I looked into the failure in detail.

> Fair enough. I have other bigger things to include as well (new builder
> monoid) so it's fine to postpone the lot.

OK, ta.


Thanks
Ian