Dependency blaze-textual may not really be maintained

[nh2]

Just wanted to let you know that you (and thus those depending on you) depend on blaze-textual, which has at least one important correctness bug:

• Incorrect result in ghci or when compiled with -O0 swamp-agr/blaze-textual#11

The last commit in https://github.com/bos/blaze-textual is from July 2015, so it is possible that that isn't maintained any more and that my fix swamp-agr/blaze-textual#12 for the above issue may not be merged.

[fgaz]

blaze-textual also fails to build with ghc 9: swamp-agr/blaze-textual#13

[fendor]

Sibling-projects such as mysql-simple resolved this issue by introducing a shim: paul-rouse/mysql-simple#51

Any interest in an identical solution here?

[thomasjm]

I'd welcome the shim solution! I'm having a problem with blaze-textual trying to bring in an integer-gmp dependency when I want to avoid GMP...

[swamp-agr]

You can always use integer-simple flag to avoid depending on integer-gmp: https://github.com/swamp-agr/blaze-textual/blob/master/blaze-textual.cabal#L75-L80

[swamp-agr]

@nh2 your patch was released yesterday!