On 3 September 2010 23:07, Johannes Waldmann <waldm...@imn.htwk-leipzig.de> wrote: > Is there a "conversion guide" for switching from base-3 to base-4? > > I noticed that ghc-HEAD (6.13) comes with base-4.3 (and no base-3). > This will break an awful lot of packages (?), in fact the breakage > starts with cabal-install (since it depends on HTTP which depends on base-3).
>From memory, the only thing that changed of significance was the exception handling: Control.Exception now uses extensible exceptions (also available for base-3 in the extensible-exceptions package). For the very lazy Control.OldException may still be available with 6.14 to keep using the old-style exceptions. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
