Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:07:24PM +1100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
suspect that we'd never have found these without the huge number of people using the lib that came from it being included as standard.
Please, please, please, packages can come "as standard" (i.e. be a core package) without having all their modules be part of the base package.
A useful example of package coming "as standard" with GHC 6.6 is Text.Regex. In GHC 6.4 all of Text.Regex and Text.Regex.Posix was part of the base package. I wrote a replacement set of packages: regex-base providing Text.Regex.Base* regex-posix providing Text.Regex.Posix* regex-compat provided Text.Regex The replacement Text.Regex was exactly the same API as the old Text.Regex, but used the new regex-posix package as the lower level. The new lower level Text.Regex.Posix was compatible with old Text.Regex.Posix -- Chris