Re: genBits: small addition to random API + largely new implementation that needs code review

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 02:26:14PM -0700, Thomas DuBuisson wrote:

Ian Lynagh wrote:

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Perhaps we should fork random as old-random

This would probably imply the next Haskell' release not specifying System.Random.

H2010 already doesn't specify Random, unless I missed something.

Ah, better still. random98 might be a better name, in that case.

I've never liked the "old-*" package renaming as that already introduces (minor) breakage and doesn't seem to encourage people to move forward. Why avoid using versioning and build-deps for this (adding a version bound is similar work to adding "old-")?

Mainly because I like to only have a single version of each package. Just having an old version of random is another option. Thanks Ian