On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner@gmail.com> wrote:
  • 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.
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  • 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

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