Re: Haskell Platform proposal: Add the vector package

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Johan Tibell wrote:

I am, with Roman's support, making a formal proposal to have the vector package included in the Haskell Platform:

http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Proposals/vector

See the wiki page for details, and a list of open issues for discussion.

The vector package itself can be found on Hackage:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vector

I thought about migrating storablevector to vector, but it seems that the vector package needs some GHC-only extensions like type families. I do not plan to make the storablevector package obsolete, but I think it would be useful if both packages would use the same datatype. Is it possible to put the Storable part of 'vector' into a separate package? Would this one be more portable?