On 4/2/14, 8:36 PM, Gershom Bazerman wrote: Anders: What would you like to do about this situation? Is it possible to revert to the non monadcatchio interface with throwCGI and catchCGI? Or would you like to switch to the exceptions package which people are considering including in the platform?
I will switch cgi to exceptions if that’s going to be in the platform going forward. I’ve been waiting for that decision, because I don’t want to force users to switch to a different exception library multiple times if we can avoid it. (I’m still not really sure whether I should feel obligated to worry about potential users of cgi on non-GHC compilers that don’t support the hefty set of GHC extensions required by exceptions. But that’s probably not of practical importance.) On Mon, 7 Apr 2014, Gershom Bazerman wrote:
Actually, changing my opinion here. If there was an argument to _add_ cgi to the platform I'd be very dubious. Legacy considerations and history aside, cgi doesn't feel like a core/common thing that is necessary to have in the platform, and it probably hasn't been for many years. If Anders doesn't get around to fixing it up, I think we should have no compunctions dropping it, and I'd be shocked if there was much in the way of complaint.
I also don’t have any particular objections to dropping it. There are better libraries for writing Haskell web applications these days, so it’s mostly a question of how you think legacy users would be best served. Anders