Re: base package -- goals

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:38:46PM +0100, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

Ian Lynagh writes:

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If we did that then every package would depend on haskell2010, which is fine until haskell2013 comes along and they all need to be changed (or miss out on any improvements that were made).

...wouldn't there also be the danger of type(class)-incompatible (e.g. the superclass breakages for startes) changes between say haskell2010 and haskell2013, that would cause problems when trying to mix libraries depending on different haskell20xx library versions?

I think that actually, for the Num/Show change, the hasell98/haskell2010 packages just incorrectly re-export the new class. Personally, I don't think the language report should be specifying the content of libraries at all, and I doubt anyone really uses the haskell* packages. A separate library specification, perhaps based on the Haskell Platform, would make more sense IMO. But that's another debate :-) Thanks Ian