[Haskell] ANN: time-1.4.0.2

[Ashley Yakeley]

IIRC it's to minimise the number of necessary extensions, so that it 
might be usable with a compiler that doesn't support DeriveDataTypeable.

-- Ashley

On 25/11/12 09:59, José Pedro Magalhães wrote:
> Hi Ashley,
>
> Sorry to repeat this question, but is there any particular reason why 
> you give handwritten
> instances of Typeable, instead of deriving them?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro
>
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Ashley Yakeley <ashley at semantic.org 
> <mailto:ashley at semantic.org>> wrote:
>
>     time-1.4.0.2 is now on Hackage.
>
>     1.4.0.2 fixes bugs and infelicities in the formatting and parsing
>     in Data.Time.Format
>
>     For formatting:
>
>     * %0Y, %_Y, %0G and %_G now pad to four characters.
>
>     * Likewise %0C, %_C, %0f and %_f pad to two characters.
>
>     For parsing:
>
>     * Runs of n whitespace characters now match n or more whitespace
>     characters. Formerly it matched zero or more whitespace characters.
>
>     * %Y, %G, %C and %f match one or more digits
>
>     * %0Y and %0G match exactly four digits. %0C and %0f match exactly
>     two digits
>
>     General:
>
>     * Now uses mkTyCon3 instead of deprecated mkTyCon (contributed by
>     Chris Moline)
>
>     Testing:
>
>     * Various infrastructure improvements (Chris Moline and me)
>
>     * QuickCheck properties now tested
>
>     I tried using Cabal's "detailed" test-suite, but it doesn't play
>     well with QuickCheck and is very slow with large numbers of small
>     test cases. I'm now making use of the test-framework package,
>     which does play well with QuickCheck.
>
>     -- Ashley Yakeley
>
>
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