On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Mark Lentczner
*old-locale and old-time* - no longer part of GHC, but cabal-install, cgi & HTTP need them - and they are part of the platform - so included now as added packages. Not sure this is a great idea, since they are now very deprecated... but until cabal-install, cgi, & HTTP update, not sure what else to do....
*exceptions* & *multipart* - needed by cgi - is exceptions now subsumed by
something in transformers? and... multipart? maybe time to drop cgi? We didn't have it last time anyway as it wouldn't compile!
Mark, Thanks for all your hard work on the platform. Haskell Platform compliance is not currently a goal of cgi and since it wasn't in the platform last round I'd say it should be treated as a package attempting to be accepted into the Haskell Platform. Are old-time and old-locale really deprecated? If so, can libraries@haskell.org use the nifty 'Deprecated in favor of ...' feature of hackage like MonadCatchIO-mtl [1] does? Regarding depedencies, since I've taken over maintenance of cgi the primary goal has been getting it able to compile with the latest GHC. Compiling with GHC 7.8 meant dropping MonadCatchIO-mtl and using exceptions. multipart is nearly a bit for bit copy of some internal cgi code, rather than duplicating the code, cgi added it as a dependency. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/MonadCatchIO-mtl -- Love in Jesus Christ, John Alfred Nathanael Chee http://www.biblegateway.com/ http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~chee/