On 17 June 2011 16:47, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> So: Under Plan A, some Hackage packages will become un-compilable,
> and will require source code changes to fix them. I do not have
> any idea how many Hackage packages would fail in this way.
Of the 372 direct reverse dependenc
Simon Peyton-Jones, if you say:
"Under Plan A, some Hackage packages will become un-compilable,
and will require source code changes to fix them. I do not have
any idea how many Hackage packages would fail in this way."
If you don't have any idea "how many Hackage packages woul
As one of the few people who has habitually used Haskell'98 wherever possible,
I favour plan A. As I recently discovered, in ghc 7 it is already very fragile
to attempt to depend on both the base and haskell98 packages simultaneously.
In most cases it simply doesn't work. Removing those few r
