21 Dec
2011
21 Dec
'11
6:20 a.m.
Sorry, forgot to cc libraries...
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Henning Thielemann
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, John Lato wrote:
I'm in the same situation, however I'm quite hesitant to add new instances in a minor version. Adding new dependencies can cause breakage even without orphan instances, if downstream packages import a different version of that dependency already.
The proposal was about adding type class instances, not about adding package dependencies.
IME, new type class instances usually arise only because of new package dependencies or a major version bump to an existing dependency, either of which would currently require a major bump.