Re: patch applied (packages/containers): Remove the rest of base to leave a "containers" package

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 02:26:38PM +0100, Ross Paterson wrote:

Quoting Ian Lynagh :

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Wed Aug 1 15:38:31 PDT 2007 Ian Lynagh * Remove the rest of base to leave a "containers" package

There may be a case for treating the constructor classes (in Data.Foldable and Data.Traversable) differently from the concrete container types (Data.Set et al).

OK, I've put them back in base for the time being.

For example, to accomodate the instances for Array in the current setup, one of array and containers must depend on the other, although they are not otherwise related.

Data.Graph uses Data.Array.ST (for GHC at least), so containers depends on array anyway. It might be possible to make this a conditional dependency with cabal configs, but I don't know if there are other deps, and I'm not sure why hugs doesn't use the ST version anyway. Thanks Ian