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I was about to open a PR to fix some outdated documentation, when I found out while reading the source code that #36 which was merged ~10 months ago had done just that.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