-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/20/11 12:09 , Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
judgement as to whether we should spend effort on backwards compatibility or not. Perhaps we're getting it wrong - so feedback from users is always valuable.
From the point of view of darcs, which is usually trying to support 2 or 3 GHC versions at a time, one cycle of deprecation makes life a lot simpler. We do look at warnings and try to fix them, but it's nicer not to have to do so in a real hurry.
And of the Haskell Platform, etc. Think of it as the price of failing to avoid success. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk04bpsACgkQIn7hlCsL25Wh2QCgydcO3kZGxRTePJvp+HvnZloI r/wAn0YIv8ZqN6ZS9WNMvaH86F3AHZgl =m18O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----