On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:11 PM, John Goerzen <jgoer...@complete.org> wrote: > Don Stewart wrote: >> >> Oh, the Platform has very strict standards about APIs, >> >> When a package may be added: >> http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/AddingPackages > > That looks like a very solid document. Does it also apply when considering > upgrading a package already in the platform to a newer version? > > Also, I notice that http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy > does not mention adding new instances, which caused a problem in the past. > I would argue that this ought to mandate at least a new A.B.C version, if > not a new A.B.
Adding or removing instances requires a new major version. See section 2: | If any entity was removed, or the types of any entities or the definitions of | datatypes or classes were changed, or instances were added or removed, | then the new A.B must be greater than the previous A.B. -- Dave Menendez <d...@zednenem.com> <http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
