Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] ExtLib UTF8 not compatible with Camomile

[Bardur A. <sp...@sc...>]

Peter Jolly wrote:
> Bardur Arantsson wrote:
>> Could we simply rename the UTF8 module to something like SimpleUTF8 to 
>> avoid confusion about whether it's supposed to 'emulate' Camomile's UTF8 
>> module?
> 
> I don't think there's any need to rename it, with all the consequent
> breakage of existing code; there's no namespace clash since (by default)
> Camomile's module is called Camomile.UTF8, not just UTF8, and it _is_
> supposed to emulate Camomile's module!  :)
> 

Fair enough. I honestly didn't know. :)

> Note that this incompatibility between ExtLib and Camomile's interfaces
> has not been caused by a recent change; if I'm reading the CVS logs
> correctly, Camomile.UTF8.first was added some two years ago, and the
> Camomile.UTF8 interface has not changed at all since then.  Keeping the
> two modules synchronised (or, more precisely, keeping ExtLib's UTF8
> module signature compatible with Camomile.UnicodeString.Type) should not
> be problematic now that it has been identified as a desirable thing.
> 

... but that would require a new release of ExtLib. (Hint hint ;)

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