From: Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:05:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add the regex reshuffle to the release notes
X-Git-Tag: Before_FC_branch_merge~122
X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?p=ghc-hetmet.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=6c6820dba847a1d2da90c67debca0224b1744f93

Add the regex reshuffle to the release notes
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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/6.6-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/6.6-notes.xml
index 980efff..1f4e485 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/6.6-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/6.6-notes.xml
@@ -706,6 +706,16 @@
             <literal>ForeignPtr</literal>.
           </para>
         </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            The <literal>Text.Regex</literal> and
+            <literal>Text.Regex.Posix</literal> modules have been removed.
+            Instead, use the new <literal>regex-compat</literal> package
+            for a drop-in <literal>Text.Regex</literal> replacement, or
+            the new library in the new <literal>regex-posix</literal>
+            package.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </sect3>
 
@@ -858,6 +868,56 @@
     </sect3>
 
     <sect3>
+      <title>regex-base</title>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Version 0.71.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            New library that provides common functions for different
+            regex backends.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
+
+    <sect3>
+      <title>regex-compat</title>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Version 0.71.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            New package providing a replacement
+            <literal>Text.Regex</literal> module.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
+
+    <sect3>
+      <title>regex-posix</title>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Version 0.71.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            A new package providing POSIX regexes.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect3>
+
+    <sect3>
       <title>stm</title>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>