I wrote:
Perhaps it would be worth checking to what extent mkTyCon is used on Hackage.
Simon Marlow wrote:
If there are a lot of packages using mkTyCon (I've already encountered one, so you might well be right), what do you suggest?
It all depends on the extent of the problem. Can someone who has quick access to the entire contents of Hackage please do a grep?
Deprecation is the gentlest way we have to signal that something needs to be fixed.
Yes. The main questions are how loudly to yell, and perhaps how long to delay, before doing that.
Perhaps deprecation warnings should be piped into "sendmail <package-author>" instead of being printed :-)
Yes, that might be a good plan. :) We can start with a post to the Cafe and Reddit, though. I'll do that now. Thanks, Yitz