From: Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas@gmail.com>
On 17 June 2011 16:47, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> wrote:
> So: ? ?Under Plan A, some Hackage packages will become un-compilable,
> ? ? ? and will require source code changes to fix them. ?I do not have
> ? ? ? ?any idea how many Hackage packages would fail in this way.
Of the 372 direct reverse dependencies of haskell98:
http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/revdeps/haskell98-1.1.0.1#direct
there are 344 which also depend on base (See http://hpaste.org/47933
for calculating the intersection).
Is it easy to check, out of those 344, how many would build if the dependency on haskell98 were removed? I suspect it's not needed for the majority of cases.
+1 for Plan A, but interested in mitigating the negative consequences.
(Bas, your link doesn't work for me BTW, can't resolve the IP. May be my uni's dns cache.)
John Lato