
#9639: Remove OldTypeable -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: dreixel | Owner: Type: task | Status: patch Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.9 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Unknown/Multiple | Difficulty: Easy (less than 1 Type of failure: | hour) None/Unknown | Blocked By: Test Case: | Related Tickets: Blocking: | Differential Revisions: Phab:D311 | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by ekmett): @dreixel: A quick skim of my own projects reveals 100+ locations affected in a way that makes them very awkward to patch around with CPP, as they affect public APIs and I've currently agreed to maintain many of my packages back to ghc 7.4 -- an agreement that will bump to 7.6 upon the release of 7.10, etc. So as a data point, deleting those 20 lines will cost me personally several hundred lines worth of easily-screwed-up support work if it is done as part of GHC 7.10. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9639#comment:12 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler