Yitzchak Gale wrote:
We should not cause people's programs to break silently by changing a fundamental API, unless there is no alternative. In this case there is a reasonable alternative. Anyone who wants to change over to editline - native or readline-compatible - can easily do so, at their leisure. Anyone who wants things to stay the way they are can do nothing.
1. Things don't break silently (I hope), they break during compilation. 2. With every new ghc major version (or library version) there is a list of user visible changes. 3. if ghci is going to use editline (at least on Macs by default) then readline would not need to be a core package und users might need to install package readline explicitely. (Then at least everybody using readline has to do something manually, at least users on Macs who complain most if something does not run out of the box.)
Do you see any problem with that approach?
No, I've only pointed out the alternative, I hope. I don't know what fits the needs of the majority most. Let's vote? Christian