25 Oct
2007
25 Oct
'07
10:31 a.m.
Simon Marlow
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/PackageCompatibility
It's been helpful for me to write all this down, the issues seem much clearer. However, I don't see an obviously best solution. For me proposal 4.2 (see the wiki page) looks the most promising, but it doesn't provide complete backwards compatibility, so I imagine there will be people who disagree.
The section "The problem of lax version dependencies" refers to "Solution 3", which doesn't seem to exists. Presumably "Solution 2" is meant? Wouldn't keeping "base-2.0" and rebranding "base-3.0" to "foundation-1.0" (which might be listed as "Solution 2.1") solve this issue? -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants