[web-devel] Last call for comments: WAI 0.4

Michael Snoyman michael at snoyman.com
Tue Mar 29 20:59:21 CEST 2011


CCing Bas.

Any chance of dropping the base-unicode-symbols from the
case-insensitive package?

Michael

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm sort of shocked by the many dependencies (already via http-types) on
>> blaze-builder, text, case-insensitive and (really unnecessarily) on
>> base-unicode-symbols.
>
> As far as I am aware, base-unicode-symbols only works on GHC 6.12 and
> above. For Hoogle, which uses WAI, I deliberately try and work on GHC
> version 6.10 as well - GHC 7 is only very just out, and a version
> which is basically functional for most users has only been released in
> the last week - making 6.10 effectively the release before last.
> Excluding 6.10 for good reasons is fine, excluding it for a fairly
> unnecessary dependency makes me sad.
>
> Thanks, Neil
>



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