Re: Changes to primops break libraries (was Re: 7.8 Feature window)

So since we have to break the API anyway, why not break it in the way that we want? Oh, but the thing is we don't! We have a plan to rename GHC.Prim to GHC.Prim.BuiltIn, rename GHC.PrimWrappers (in ghc-prim) to GHC.Prim and make it re-export GHC.Prim.BuiltIn [1]. This way change will be completely backwards compatible. I was working on that on Friday. Patches are essentially finished, but I still have to solve haddock panic that I somehow introduced [2].

[1] - http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-August/002072.html [2] - http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-August/002124.html