On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma@ro-che.info> wrote:

On 09/01/15 12:02, Jan Stolarek wrote:
>> We could file a tracking bug against the 7.14 milestone.
> I was considering that but we don't have 7.14 milestone yet.
>
>> Just curious, is there a way to keep these functions for backwards compat
>> in 7.14 or is that unfeasible?
> They could stay, technically that's not a problem. But I'm adding new functions that can do the
> same thing (and more), so we have redundancy.

Can you hide them in the haddock but leave in the module, so that we
don't break existing code?

I agree. You'll get rid of the redundancy in the library by removing it but you're users will have to live with

#if MIN_VERSION_template_haskell(X,Y,X)

-- new way

#else

-- old way

#endif

for 3+ years (which is typically how many GHC versions popular libraries try to support).