7 Jun
2012
7 Jun
'12
5:20 p.m.
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:24:51PM +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
+1 for deprecation cycle.
I don't think a deprecation cycle makes sense in this case:
* Only a handful of packages use these modules/functions (according to my very out-of-date copy of hackage, anyway).
I don't use these modules, too. But I supported the general thoughts by Ganesh.
* The code is buggy (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3160) so we would like people to stop using it sooner rather than later.
The DEPRECATE pragma allows people to tell _how_ they can fix their code.
* It is harder for us: We don't have a good way to track tasks that need to be done at some point in the future.
fgrep -r DEPRECATE ?