Hi all, This is trac #1338: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1338#comment:14 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/1338/packagegraph.png Initial deadline: 21 Aug (2 weeks). The base package is still a large, unwieldy beast, making it hard to develop and debug. If possible, I'd like to cut it down a bit more before the 6.10 release. I won't inline all the details here, as it's a huge amount of text and an image, but basically I'm proposing to: * Create packages: timeout, unique, concurrent, st, system, numeric, generics, version, getopt, debug, printf ghc-exts * Merge what I've listed as "control" into "containers" There's definitely a "foreign" package fighting to get out too, but that needs more work before we can set it free. An important point to note is that Simon Marlow has made a base 3 compatibility library that will come with GHC 6.10, and will provide the same interface as the base library that came with 6.8, so breaking backwards compatibility in base 4 shouldn't cause large problems like the base 2 to base 3 change did. Thanks Ian