3 Sep
2010
3 Sep
'10
9:22 a.m.
On 3 September 2010 23:07, Johannes Waldmann
Is there a "conversion guide" for switching from base-3 to base-4?
I noticed that ghc-HEAD (6.13) comes with base-4.3 (and no base-3). This will break an awful lot of packages (?), in fact the breakage starts with cabal-install (since it depends on HTTP which depends on base-3).
From memory, the only thing that changed of significance was the exception handling: Control.Exception now uses extensible exceptions (also available for base-3 in the extensible-exceptions package). For the very lazy Control.OldException may still be available with 6.14 to keep using the old-style exceptions.
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