We're already long past the point where an alternative Haskell compiler needs to implement an ever-expanding list of extensions to work with large and useful parts of Hackage.
On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 10:58:49AM +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>
>> Data.Array actually _was_ part of base-3.
>>
>> However, I think we should split 'base' in more smaller parts rather than
>> making it bigger.
>
> FWIW, I don't think that splitting base into multiple libraries would
> achieves much, it would likely raise the cost of coordinating
> versioning.
It would enable new Haskell compilers to implement some packages but not
all.
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