Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

Hi Ivan Forks are good, no? The Parsec experience has suggested to me at least, that new author's "capping" another author's work by bumping up to a major version, causes a significant difficulties even when the original author has gone. As for wl-pprint, it was a very tidy library in its original implementation - it's a pity it now has name clashes with Applicative. My feeling is that a new library in a new namespace with some attention to new combinator names would be better.