On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:04:35AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote: > We certainly want to be able to add new stuff to the FFI over time. > There are several ways we might do this: > > (1) Just extend the existing interfaces (don't change semantics > of existing functions, though). > > (2) Add new modules only (not re-exported by Foreign) > > (3) Add new stuff to the hierarchical Foreign.XXX modules, but > not the non-hierarchical variants (and Foreign keeps the > same interface as the FFI spec). > > (4) Wait until we have versioned packages, and have separate > ffi-1.0 and ffi-1.1 packages.
(3) seems to be working well for the H98 modules; in effect the switch to hierarchical modules has given us one-off package versioning. The only problem is that the not-so-hierarchical module Foreign is in the base package rather than haskell98, and I would argue that such an omnibus module doesn't belong in the hierarchical libraries, even if it does make your import list shorter. How about moving it? _______________________________________________ FFI mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ffi
