On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 03:35:49AM +0300, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
for a way to include their libs in every ghc distro, don't find other solution except for including them in Base lib. moreover, while Simon & Ian argued against inclusion of these very useful libs in base libs set, they don't have anything against inclusion of the same code in Base lib
FWIW I don't think bytestring should have gone into base either. There's no advantage to adding it before we have something in base that actually needs it.
in particular, my hottest hope is that ghc 6.6.1 will be shipped with fps 0.8 as separate library that will provide both backward compatibility with 6.6 and will allow to upgrade fps without recompiling ghc itself :D
I agree with the others that, now that we have done it, we should stick with it for the 6.6 branch, though. Thanks Ian