I think the renaming proposed by Adam is uncontroversial and I will include this revision when accepting the proposal. Am Do., 26. Juni 2025 um 10:25 Uhr schrieb Adam Gundry <adam@well-typed.com
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I'm also in favour.
I am suggesting some small naming changes, and I would point out one detail on which the committee may have opinions as to bikeshed colour, namely the module namespace to be used by the new packages. Teo proposes
template-haskell-lift with module TemplateHaskell.Lift template-haskell-quasiquote with module TemplateHaskell.Quasiquoter
and I suggest slightly tweaking the latter to
template-haskell-quasiquoter with module TemplateHaskell.QuasiQuoter
for consistency with the QuasiQuoter type name.
In both cases, the module name is in a new TemplateHaskell module hierarchy, whereas the existing template-haskell package uses the Language.Haskell.TH module hierarchy. I think a renaming is in order, because it gives a clear distinction between the historic API of the old template-haskell package and the cleaned up APIs of the new packages. Personally I like the new names, but I wanted to check others are also happy with them?
Cheers,
Adam
On 23/06/2025 08:55, Sebastian Graf wrote:
Dear Committee,
With their proposal, Teo wants to reduce the maintenance cost for packages (such as `containers`) that depend on `template-haskell` only for comparatively stable APIs (`Lift`, quasiquoting), by carving out separate packages for these stable APIs. These so-called "type (A) clients" constitute a considerable share of all clients of `template-haskell`. It is a well-written proposal outlining a simple solution with a great cost/benefit ratio. I recommend we accept it.
Cheers, Sebastian
Am Mo., 16. Juni 2025 um 09:17 Uhr schrieb Adam Gundry via ghc-steering-committee <ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org <mailto:ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org>>:
Dear Committee,
Teo Camarasu proposes to split out smaller, more coherent packages with more stable interfaces from the template-haskell package:
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/696 <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/696>
https://github.com/TeofilC/ghc-proposals/blob/wip/th-lift-and-quasiquote/pro... < https://github.com/TeofilC/ghc-proposals/blob/wip/th-lift-and-quasiquote/pro...
I'd like to nominate Sebastian as the shepherd.
Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process>
Cheers,
Adam
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