From: Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com>
On 7 February 2011 12:30, wren ng thornton <wren@freegeek.org> wrote:
> On 2/6/11 4:53 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
>>
>> On 7 February 2011 08:12, Alexey Khudyakov<alexey.skladnoy@gmail.com>
>> ?wrote:
>>>
>>> Also there is a container-classes package which provide set of type class
>>> for containers.
>>>
>>> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/container-classes
>>
>> Don't use that package: it's broken. ?I did start on a re-write that
>> works (and there are similar libraries around that I believe do work),
>> but gave up because it was a) too fiddly, and b) I decided that the
>> use case I had for them wasn't worth it (as it would just make that
>> library more complicated and difficult to use, possibly also less
>> efficient). ?If anyone wants it I can certainly send them what I've
>> got though.
>
> Any chance you could push a 0.0.0.1 version which tells people this, so that
> they know to avoid it?
Didn't think about that; I'll try to do so tonight.
Perhaps a better approach would be to ask the hackage maintainer (Ross Patterson, if I'm not mistaken) to deprecate container-classes.
John