[darcs-users] darcs patch: switch to zlib 0.5.0.0 with new interface for specifyi...

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, David Roundy wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:46:23PM +0000, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
>> This completes the work I started a couple of months back using the Haskell
>> zlib. Duncan Coutts is going to release zlib 0.5.0.0 on hackage RSN.
>>
>> Sun Oct 26 10:26:50 GMT 2008  Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li>
>>   * switch to zlib 0.5.0.0 with new interface for specifying decompressed size
>
> Actually, why can't we just support either version of zlib? It won't be
> hard, and it'll make life simpler for our users...

IMO it's just not worth the extra cruft that supporting this legacy 
pre-1.0 version would be. I doubt there are many users who have installed 
the old zlib, and those that have could very easily install the new one, 
as there's no dependency on a newer GHC version or anything like that.

Ganesh