On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:42:50 +0100, Duncan Coutts <duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 13:47 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: >> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:48:13 -0700, Lyle Kopnicky <li...@qseep.net> >> wrote: >> >> >Great! But what happened to the time package? It was in 6.10.1. Has it been >> >intentionally excluded from 6.10.2? > >Yes, the maintainer of the time package asked for it to be removed: > >> Can I remove the time package from the GHC build process? I >> want to update it but I don't want to deal with GHC's >> autotools stuff or break the GHC build. > > >> Then I should probably hold off on installing the new version for now. >> Any estimate on when this problem will be fixed? > >The time package will be part of the first platform release (assuming we >get enough volunteers to do the platform release!) > >In the mean time you can just: > >$ cabal install time Okay; no problem. I just read through the Release notes for version 6.10.2 (see http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.2/html/users_guide/release-6-10-2.html), however, and noticed that the removal of the time package hadn't been documented there. Perhaps this information should be included? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^ _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell