Release a version compatible with GHC 9.10

[Qqwy]

I was about to open a PR to fix some outdated documentation, when I found out while reading the source code that #36 which was merged ~10 months ago had done just that.

When will a new version with the updated documentation be released to Hackage?

[phadej]

Most likely GHC-9.10 (i.e. foldl' in Prelude will force the release: #43).

[andreasabel]

And so the time has come...

[andreasabel]

Indeed, we have the build error with GHC 9.10:

src/Data/Text/Short/Internal.hs:69:7: error: [GHC-87543]
    Ambiguous occurrence ‘foldl'’.
    It could refer to
       either ‘Prelude.foldl'’,
              imported from ‘Prelude’ at src/Data/Text/Short/Internal.hs:(139,1)-(144,80)
              (and originally defined in ‘ghc-internal-9.1001.0:GHC.Internal.Data.Foldable’),
           or ‘Data.Text.Short.Internal.foldl'’,
              defined at src/Data/Text/Short/Internal.hs:586:1.
   |
69 |     , foldl'
   |       ^^^^^^

[angerman]

@phadej can we cut a release? With GHC 9.10 being effectively in the wild now, this necessitates usage of head.hackage, and has head.hackage leak out of GHC development. I don't think we want anyone ever to depend on head.hackage but GHC developers.

[phadej]

I won't make a release until GHC-9.10.1 is out. If you are using alphas, deal with problems caused yourself.

[andreasabel]

Making it easier for more developers to evaluate the alpha and RC versions of GHC will in the end benefit GHC development (and the whole Haskell ecosystem as a whole), as more regressions can be caught in time by more pre-release testing.
Frankly, I don't see what is gained by postponing the release here.

[phadej]

It happens often enough that you then need to make another change for the final release

The head.hackage patch is there to be used

[hasufell]

It happens often enough that you then need to make another change for the final release

The head.hackage patch is there to be used

Here you're forgetting a small detail: the end user has no easy way of knowing which patch in head.hackage is upstream approved and which one is just cooked up by random contributors who don't really know the codebases.

That does make a pretty significant difference.

[andreasabel]

If you also have to work around this ... here is a snippet for the cabal.project.local:

source-repository-package
  type:     git
  location: https://github.com/haskell-hvr/text-short
  tag:      9c4c133afc0b0d284e9c61477dcb9a20862f49f8

[nomeata]

Very timely, thanks a lot! With this and

index-state: 2024-04-28T06:04:17Z
with-compiler: ghc-9.10.0.20240426
allow-newer:
  candid:*,
  *:base,
  *:template-haskell,
  *:deepseq,
  *:bytestring,
  *:text,
  *:ghc,
  *:containers

source-repository-package
  type:     git
  location: https://github.com/haskell-hvr/text-short
  tag:      9c4c133afc0b0d284e9c61477dcb9a20862f49f8

I could confirm that my package is 9.10.1-ready.

[tomjaguarpaw]

Most likely GHC-9.10 (i.e. foldl' in Prelude will force the release: #43).

We now have GHC-9.10, so could the release please be made?

[tchoutri]

@phadej It would be really kind of you to push a release.

[Bodigrim]

text-short is the last package which needs an upgrade for one of my products to migrate to GHC 9.10 (everything else works fine with --allow-newer only). It would be great to have a release soon.

(GHC 9.10 and Cabal 3.12 are quite a game-changer because of semaphore builds and multiple home units, so I'm keen to upgrade asap)

[tchoutri]

@phadej also I'd be happy to give a hand regarding bounds bumps and compat PRs, if you are overworked. :)

[tomjaguarpaw]

I'm also willing to volunteer for bounds-bumping assistance.

[phadej]

Blocked on haskell/ghcup-metadata#210 (or actually on GHC-9.10.1 being available in the default release channel of ghcup).

Having multiple pings over the weekend won't make me do anything any faster.

[phadej]

The bump bumping is something I don't need help with. The release management overall is something I wouldn't trust many people to do.

[hasufell]

Blocked on haskell/ghcup-metadata#210 (or actually on GHC-9.10.1 being available in the default release channel of ghcup).

Yeah, it's weekend and I'm eating my chocolate cake.

[hasufell]

haskell/ghcup-metadata#211

[phadej]

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-short-0.1.6

[Bodigrim]

It seems to say base >=4.12 && <4.20, no?