On 15/12/09 11:13, Dennis Walter wrote:
Where has Control.Concurrent.STM gone? I cannot find it on http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/ anymore!
Split into an stm package, on hackage. :-)
Thanks for the info; I wonder if this is a good or a bad sign regarding STM's future within Haskell? Is it so big and self-contained to deserve its own external package, or is it so little used that it does not belong to into the "standard" libraries?
You should think of the "standard" libraries as those that come with the Haskell Platform, which includes stm. The packages that come with GHC are now the bare essentials needed to bootstrap GHC itself. We haven't changed our position on stm at all: it continues to be fully supported, and there are no plans to change that. Unfortunately the removal of stm from the set of packages that we regularly build with GHC means that it isn't getting as much testing as before, which is something we should fix. There are various plans afoot to revamp our automatic build & testing infrastructure, and testing external libraries should be a part of that. Cheers, Simon