Re: Proposal: hands off the base! :)

bulat.ziganshin:

i make a contra-proposal - fix base library in 6.8 state and add to ghc distribution new libs with all the popular Monad, List and any other functions. this will allow:

2) if we want to improve some base code, we *duplicate* it into new lib (with modified module names), publish first version of this libarry with exactly original code (and therefore equivalent interfaces) and then start to improve it, publishing newer and newer versions. imagine, for example, that we want to improve Data.Array.*:

step 1: create library NewArray with modules Data.NewArray.* copied one-to-one from Data.Array.* and publish it as version 1

Data.Array is in the external 'array' package now. -- Don