Hello Curt, Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 4:43:48 PM, you wrote:
Bad interfaces cost me money. It's generally cheaper for me to change to good interfaces than it is to stick with the bad ones.
you don't consider third way - use library versioning to control interface changes. search haskell.org for "package versioning policy". ideally, base library should never change because you canot use multiple versions of base library with one ghc version, and changes in everything else shuld be controlled via PVP btw, what a business solutions you develop with a Haskell? (if it's not top secret :D) i agree that for closed source, money-making software updating to new version of interfaces is much less problem. you can just skip upgrading to new ghc version - i personally still use 6.6. but when you are going to open-source, free software world, this means more problems and less people willing to keep things working. for example, i've dropped support of libraries i once have published and keep updating only code of my own program. ultimately, this means less libs on hackage and therefore less opportunities to use haskell in your business -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com