Re: old-locale

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 14:08, Jason Dagit wrote:

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Ashley Yakeley wrote:

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On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 06:11 +0200, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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Perhaps this belongs in a separate discussion, but is there any plan to have time provide the locale stuff directly instead of our code needing to depend on old-locale? If I'm not mistaken, implementing such a strategy at the same time would mean that user code could then ignore two old-* packages.

No, locale is not part of time. Nor am I interested in taking responsibility for it.

According to http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions , old-locale is "maintained only for backward compatibility". And yet no-one can tell me where any new "locale" package is or why the old "locale" became "old-locale" or what might count as "forward" compatibility. Nor do I know of any particular problems with it, but then I haven't examined its subject area particularly closely.

I've tripped on this as well. Putting 'old-foo' in a cabal file feels wrong, but when I looked I also couldn't find any discussion as to why it is called old-locale.

My understanding is [old-]locale was used only by [old-]time; it was intended to gather various locale dependent things, but never did. So when time was deprecated to old-time, locale went along with its only consumer. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms