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Utility library [Haskell]
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/MissingH
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Drop regex dependency? #55

Closed JacquesCarette closed 2 years ago

JacquesCarette commented 3 years ago

The library describes itself as "a library of all sorts of utility functions for Haskell programmers. It is written in pure Haskell and thus should be extremely portable and easy to use." but its dependency on regex means that on Windows, it doesn't work so easily. It runs afoul of https://github.com/haskell-hvr/regex-posix/issues/4 in particular. That bug has been open for more than a year!

So this would be more portable if the stuff that depends on regex was split out.

slaykovsky commented 3 years ago

Would you please take a look at https://github.com/haskell-hvr/regex-posix/issues/4#issuecomment-843677975

JacquesCarette commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the work-around. Though I think the issue is still valid...

andreasabel commented 3 years ago

@JacquesCarette : Did fixing of the regex-posix issue (https://github.com/haskell-hvr/regex-posix/issues/4#issuecomment-882512639) solve the portability problem for you?

JacquesCarette commented 3 years ago

Given the time-span involved, we ended up rewriting the one function from MissingH that we were using instead, so this is now a non-issue for my project.