I wrote:
It may be true that haskell-src-exts is more commonly used and is more appropriate for inclusion in the platform. If so, perhaps some renaming is in order. But please, not at the expense of total elimination of the important haskell-src package from hackage.
Ian Lynagh wrote:
In that case we presumably should have haskell98-src (== what is now haskell-src?) haskell2010-src (doesn't currently exist?) haskell-src (== haskell-src-exts)
Yes, that would work. Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
This could be different modules of the same package as well. For instance one might want to convert from an Haskell 98 source into an Haskell 2010 one, or an Haskell "With Extensions" one.
That would perhaps be better, but I think it would be more work in two ways: first It would be necessary to unite the packages and resolve some name-clashing issues. Then we would be left with a larger more monolithic package that would be harder to maintain. But if you, or others, together with the current package maintainers, decide to go this route, I think it would be fine. Thanks, Yitzchak