Re: [Haskell-cafe] Rewriting a famous library and using the same name: pros and cons

On Tuesday 08 June 2010 20:21:54, Gregory Crosswhite wrote:

Or you just put an upper bound on the versions of the fgl library that your program will build against, as you should be doing anyway, and then nothing breaks.

Cheers, Greg

Right. At least, nothing breaks until the next compiler release makes the old library break. But a new package name wouldn't help with that.