Hello Thomas, Monday, September 24, 2007, 6:42:11 PM, you wrote:

This is not a pretty solution and also has the problem of incorrectly dealing with changes to the base interface. This, IMO, is due to keeping the name 'base' instead of opting to clarify the incompatibilities by choosing "base2".

it's not yet too late to fix it. i think that this Base2 Hell is serious problem and we need to develop and introduce solution to it before we can issue GHC 6.8.1 from my POV, the best solution is to provide base 1.0.* package that just reexports all the functionality that was available in ghc 6.6; and base 2.0 package - the current one -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com